A new study published in Science reveals that the neural mechanism behind our ability to move around is not as special as we might like We haven't evolved as much as we'd like to believe. Our genome ...

A few nights without sleep can not only make people tired and emotional, but may actually put the brain into a primitive "fight or flight" state, researchers said on Wednesday. Brain images of ...

How rudimentary movements evolve into sophisticated ones during development remains unclear. It is often assumed that the primitive patterns of neural control are suppressed during development, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A few nights without sleep can not only make people tired and emotional, but may actually put the brain into a primitive "fight or ...

A 400 million-year-old fossil of a coelacanth fin, the first finding of its kind, fills a shrinking evolutionary gap between fins and limbs. The fossil shows that the ancestral pattern of lobed fins ...

A 400 million-year-old fossil of a coelacanth fin, the first finding of its kind, fills a shrinking evolutionary gap between fins and limbs. University of Chicago scientists describe the finding in a ...