The Italian Renaissance artist created groundbreaking depictions of humans at a time when the inner workings of the body ...

Feingold’s first album beneath the alias pondlicker, Soft Focus, offers a hit of cerebral discombobulation; the whole thing sounds as if it was constructed on a brittle percussive vertebrae.

Zoledronate, administered at baseline and again after five years, effectively reduces the incidence of morphometric vertebral fractures in early postmenopausal women over a 10-year period.

But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...

Now, one theorist warns that the human civilization of 8.2 billion people is at a critical junction: teetering between what he forecasts will be authoritarian collapse and superabundance.

And who was to blame? No one says “act of God,” anymore — to indulge in talk of forces so large would insult our collective need to believe in human responsibility, which is to say control ...

The human-animal bond is a mutually beneficial interaction between people and animals. We focus on dogs and cats when discussing the human-animal bond but bonding can happen with any animal species.

In a few decades, gene-editing technologies could reduce the likelihood of common human diseases. Societies must use this time to prepare for their arrival. Read the paper: Heritable polygenic ...

From virtual assistants that can hold conversations with natural intonation to digital avatars that replicate human facial expressions, AI is becoming more human-like in its appearance and behavior.