The humble planarian flatworm can regrow its brain. Here’s how this tiny animal will have you rethinking everything you thought you knew about memory.

Discover how axolotls and flatworms coordinate regeneration through body-wide signals, revealing a complex healing process.

Axolotls and flatworms regenerate lost body parts through body-wide coordination, not local repair. Scientists analysed that ...

Scientists at Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered a benefit of vitamin C ...

Injuries are a part of life. When humans get hurt, our wounds heal, but scars remain and lost body parts never return. In the ...

A research team has recreated the evolution of the eye in a physics simulation. The results show why nature chose such ...

When a nondescript, brownish crab was hand-caught in the Willamette River in November 2025, it raised the alarm at the Oregon ...

A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new University of Cambridge study that includes a table ranking ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?