According to the study, our ancestors split from a group 1.5 million years ago and rejoined them 300,000 years ago.

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Columbia scientists mapped brain mitochondria for the first time, revealing how energy shapes memory, mood, and mental health ...

The brain runs on energy. Every thought, memory, or emotion sparks countless signals between nerve cells. That communication ...

Let us start with the brain. The brain is a physical organ, (like heart and liver), and is situated within the skull, that ...

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

On this episode of Primer, we explore the world of biocomputing, where scientists are blurring the lines between the biological and synthetic.

To build the map, researchers at Columbia University and the University of Bordeaux took a slice of a frozen human brain and, ...

What if poor sleep was doing more than just making you tired? Researchers have discovered that disrupted sleep in older ...

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...