LOS ANGELES—Noah Hudnut’s family had already spent $150,000 on his psychiatric care when he was hauled in handcuffs by police to the emergency room of UCLA medical center. On top of the ...

Ancient human relatives ran on two legs, like modern humans, but at a much slower pace, suggest 3D computer simulations of Australopithecus afarensis 1 — a small hominin that lived more than ...

One critical human trait linked to jealousy is inequity aversion—a resistance to unfair treatment. Humans often reject unequal distributions of resources, even at their own expense, to preserve ...

But the procedures remain experimental and only available to patients too sick to be eligible to receive a human organ ... Stimulants are the best treatment for core symptoms of ADHD like ...

Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago, scientists reported Thursday. Researchers analyzed ancient genes to pinpoint the time period ...

If you are reading this, you are probably not alone. Most people on Earth are habitats for mites that spend the majority of their brief lives burrowed, head-first, in our hair follicles, primarily of ...

Scientists have long known that humans outside of Africa owe 2 to 3 percent of their genome to Neandertal ancestors. But now, using the oldest modern human DNA ever analyzed, two separate studies ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes result from interbreeding between ...

Meet Demodex, the face mite, a microscopic arachnid that lives on human skin. The pore is its humble abode and the waxy sebum we secrete is its meal of choice. It's hard to know for sure ...

But what about pore cleaning mites like Demodex folliculorum that spend their ... be on its way to being completely dependent on us as humans to survive The study shows that as their genetic ...