A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways ...

The human brain solves problems in a nearly perfect way, if you observe the biology of it from the perspective of a physicist. Biophysicist William Bialek, the final speaker in the “Evolving Brain” ...

The human brain is often lauded as one of nature's most extraordinary creations, as our sensory systems take in trillions of bits of information per second. Yet only a fraction of that makes it to our ...