A 3D analysis comparing the way fabric falls on a human body versus a low-relief sculpture shows that the Shroud of Turin was ...

Long before evolution equipped them with the right teeth, early humans began eating tough grasses and starchy underground ...

Eating excessive calories is 10 times more influential than sedentariness in driving the obesity epidemic, researchers say.

Study shows high depression rates among infertile women in Delhi, highlighting the need for psychological support in ...

But people of different genders and races often report different experiences with pain. And doctors’ own biases influence how ...

Craving a glass of wine with your dinner? The dietary habits of our ape ancestors may be to blame. To better understand the relationship between humans and alcohol, researchers are studying the ...

A Dartmouth-led study shows that early humans developed a taste for grassy carbohydrate-rich plants 700,000 years before they evolved the ideal teeth to chew the tougher plant fibers efficiently. The ...

The team’s analysis revealed traces of arecoline and arecaidine in three of the samples, all from the same individual—organic ...

New research on chimpanzees living in the open woodlands of Tanzania suggests that the story of how humans learned to walk on ...

Ape behavior just got a name upgrade — “scrumping” — and it might help explain why humans can handle alcohol so well.

Neanderthals had a voracious appetite for meat. They hunted big game and chowed down on woolly mammoth steak as they huddled ...

A new study finds that Neanderthals likely ate decomposing meat crawling with maggots — and the chemical evidence in their ...