Human factors (also referred to as human factors psychology and human factors engineering) is an applied field of study that examines human abilities, limitations, behaviors, and processes in order to ...

The human brain is turning out to be much more complicated than scientists could have ever imagined (Credit: Mareen Fischinger/Forschungszentrum Jülich) Human brains are bigger than those of our ...

Artificial intelligence has come a long way since Alan Turing first speculated about the concept of the "thinking machine" in 1950, but there's still a significant gap between the popular conception ...

In an age where technology is quickly advancing, we are consistently told that it’s supposed to improve the way we communicate with one another. I don’t entirely agree. Technology only exists because ...

Human biology is the study of all aspects of the human organism including evolution, genetics, ecology, anatomy and physiology, development, anthropology, and nutrition, among others. A deep ...

Six years ago I jumped at an opportunity to join the international team that was identifying the sequence of DNA bases, or “letters,” in the genome of the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). As a ...

The first human genome was mapped in 2001 as part of the Human Genome Project, but researchers knew it was neither complete nor completely accurate. Now, scientists have produced the most completely ...

University of Manchester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The average body contains about 37 trillion cells – and we are in the midst of a revolutionary quest to understand what ...

Christopher Henshilwood (in Blombos Cave) dug at one of the most important early human sites partly out of proximity—it’s on his grandfather’s property. Centre for Development Studies, University of ...

Thanks to the Human Genome Project, researchers have sequenced all 3.2 billion base pairs in the human genome. How did researchers complete this chromosome map years ahead of schedule? Initial ...

Human composting is the practice of breaking down human remains into fertile soil. The green burial movement, which is at the forefront of human composting, is an initiative dedicated to offering more ...