The biggest jump in body size among our ancestors happened around 2–2.5 million years ago, with the appearance of Homo rudolfensis or Homo erectus/ergaster, rather than gradually across the whole ...

Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals did not have a larval ...

Plastics are a petrochemical product. More than 99% of plastic resins are created from oil, fracked gas or coal, and enormous quantities of additives are used to give them properties such as water ...

Consider what we ask of a clinical trial. We gather people who differ in nearly every way that matters, we give them the same drug at the same dose, and then we average the result and call the average ...

A longevity startup has dosed its first patient with a drug to reverse age-related sight loss. Life Biosciences is testing its ER-100 drug, which the company claims has restored vision in monkeys, for ...

The human body may seem finely engineered, but many of its most familiar features reveal a history of evolutionary compromise rather than perfect design. Credit: Shutterstock The human body evolved ...

This time it’s personal . . . . It’s next to impossible to walk through “Costume Art,” the Met’s blockbuster fashion exhibition, as an impassive observer. Active looking is more than encouraged, it’s ...

The Hidden Stress Cycle Impacting Body Image Feeling stuck with body image despite doing everything right? Here’s a simple shift to break the cycle.

Stretched out on a sun lounger, beating the heat beneath one of the white pergolas on the balcony of Lo Scalo in Puglia, I find myself not admiring the view of the Adriatic Sea before me, but instead, ...

“I was really afraid for my future,” Loren Schauers says in PEOPLE’s exclusive clip of TLC's new series ‘One Day in My Body’ Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for PEOPLE on the Health team. She joined ...

The human body is often described as a marvel of “perfect design”: elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, when we look closer, a rather different picture emerges. Far from being a ...