And why, relative to body weight, is a human testicle triple the size of a gorilla’s but a fifth of that of a chimpanzee? As I show in my new book, The Tree of Life, we are still searching for the ...

A tree with darker leaves than surrounding trees indicates there's a body buried beneath or near it.

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

There's some debate around which human body parts are useless and which aren't.

Researchers have used distinct markers from human subpopulations to trace back to our common African root in a giant human "tree." However, a “trellis” model might be more appropriate. Aa Aa ...

10-07-2022 IMPACT At these new green cemeteries, your body will turn into a tree The startup Transcend is rethinking cemeteries as forests, and giving people a more eco-friendly afterlife option.

A study published in PNAS provides a comprehensive look at the relationship between cell size and count across the human body, drawing from over 1,500 sources and identifying around 400 unique ...

At least for the time being, the history of human evolution seems less a procession of advance and more a turbulent, competitive test one in which innovation, competition, and resilience fashioned ...

Researchers found human remains at Joshua Tree National Park, prompting an investigation by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.

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Ultraweak biophotons largely caused by metabolic processes could play a key role in noninvasive health testing.

The relationship between the human mind and body has been a subject that has challenged great thinkers for millennia, including the philosophers Aristotle and Descartes. The answer, however ...