Humans

  1. Health & Medicine

    A framework for growing bone

    A promising new material could help encourage damaged or broken bones to grow back.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Remembering Facts and Feelings

    An inner-brain region called the hippocampus may be the root of memory of both experiences and fact.

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  3. Humans

    Digging for ancient DNA

    Soil has yielded identifiable DNA of animals and plants that lived up to 400,000 years ago.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Sea Kids See Clearly Underwater

    Sea-gypsy children spend so much time swimming that their eyes have adapted to improve vision underwater.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Gut germs to the rescue

    Many of the bacteria that live in our intestines may help keep us healthy.

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  6. Humans

    Fossil skulls plug gap in human origins

    Anthropologists have unearthed the oldest fossils of modern people ever found.

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