This comprehensive review synthesizes a decade of human and animal research to explain how the gut and brain communicate ...

Studying ancient sea creatures’ snoozing habits could shed light on the origins of sleep.

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Introduction Virtual reality-based telerehabilitation (VR-TR) combines gamified exercises with remote supervision for people with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Its effectiveness and safety in PD remain ...

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They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

Discover the surprising role of the appendix in immunity and gut health, alongside insights on appendicitis and treatment options.

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

How monogamous are humans, really? It’s an age-old question subject to significant debate. Now a University of Cambridge professor has an answer: somewhere between the Eurasian beaver and a meerkat.

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new University of Cambridge study that includes a table ranking ...