Humans love it when cats knead because the cute motion makes it look like cats are hard at work on a bakery assembly line.

Step into any supermarket or pharmacy, and you'll find aisles brimming with products designed to make you smell "fresh," feel "clean," or somehow achieve a level of "purity" that no human body ...

A study published in December 2024 demonstrates how natural language processing techniques, combined with dedicated human ...

These outbreaks revealed not only viral replication in the mammary glands of cattle but also its potential for cow-to-human transmission, with documented cases in farm workers. This has made it ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

On January 14, hippies and other counterculture participants swarmed to the polo grounds in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in a gathering called the Human Be-In. Timothy Leary advised ...

So I don’t see why we need to put deodorant everywhere,” Adigun said. There are sweat glands all over the body. But only a small portion of them are responsible for body odor. Called apocrine ...

Adrenal glands, responsible for producing hormones that manage the body’s stress response, can sometimes become overburdened. This can result in a commonly seen condition called adrenal fatigue ...

Digicomphoto / Science Photo Library via Getty Images The United States has reported its first human death from H5N1 bird flu, marking a somber moment in the ongoing outbreak of the virus.

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 ...

Studies have shown that people dislike attempts to make AI convincingly human. But emphasizing the essential role of humans in AI tools can help reduce resistance to adoption. Making your AI tools ...