“Has science gone too far?” is a question we should all be asking ourselves on the regular. After all we’re moving through an era where scientists can do everything from making squid clear to ...

Scientists have been growing miniature models of human brains in the lab for a few years, and now it seems these organoids have passed a pretty major milestone. Researchers from the University of ...

Humans and apes may be closely related, but brains are where we differ. Human brains are larger and structurally different, especially in the areas that allow us to do things apes can’t, namely ...

Researchers have discovered that the size of our frontal lobes alone does not account for the superior cognitive abilities of humans. In a study released on May 13, 2013 in the Proceedings of the ...

A central question in the study of human evolution pertains to when, and of course how and why, modern human cognitive abilities evolved beyond those of our ape progenitors. New research sheds light ...