Genes play a powerful role in shaping your health—you won’t believe how your DNA influences everything from ADHD to Parkinson’s disease. Here’s what groundbreaking research reveals about the ...

Stegosaurus is one of those dinosaurs we all recognise straight away—big, slow, covered in plates, and dragging a spiky tail like it means business. But for decades, there’s been a running joke about ...

Vertebrates have extremely different brain sizes: even with the same body size, brain size can vary a hundredfold. As a rule, mammals and birds have the largest brains in relation to their body size, ...

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than earlier species, a new study of human brain evolution has found. The study ...

You are a child who grew up. The inevitability of a child’s growth is both celebrated and mourned. Under normal circumstances, parents can do little but stand back and watch as shoe sizes climb, ...

In the last post, we left off with the knowledge that human brains grow for longer into adulthood compared to chimp brains. But why would that matter? Turns out, that time allows for increased ...