The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

Microplastics, plastic particles fewer than 5 millimeters in size, ... The study examined 52 human brain samples from 2016 and 2024, all taken from the frontal cortex, ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the ...

New research suggests that the unique way human placentas produce sex hormones during pregnancy may have been a key driver ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

Cambridge and Oxford researchers propose the placenta drove human evolution by shaping our large, social brains.

There is a continuing debate in developmental neuroscience about the importance of activity-dependent processes. The relatively delayed rate of development of the human brain, compared with that ...