All vertebrate species have a pelvis, but only humans use it for upright, two-legged walking. The evolution of the human pelvis, and our two-legged gait, dates back five million years, but the precise ...

China in a first-of-its-kind experiment has sent “artificial human embryos” to space, aiming to learn more about how ...

China sent synthetic human embryos to its space station this month, the first experiment of its kind. The goal is to determine whether one of the earliest stages of human development can withstand ...

Microgravity and higher radiation levels in orbit could disrupt cell alignment, gene expression, or organ formation.

A study of people living on the Tibetan Plateau suggests that human evolution is still occurring today. Researchers examined ...