“People without uteruses have tummy pooches, too, and the back of my arm has fat, and there’s no uterus there,” Erlanger said. Weight fluctuations across our lifespans are very common, and in general ...

Bradycardia refers to a resting heart rate that is slower than usual. A heart rate of fewer than 60 beats per minute (bpm) may indicate an underlying health issue, but this is not always the case.

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But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...

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But Chalmers famously took a different tack: There are two ways in which [one] may attempt to displace from the human heart its love of the world—either by a demonstration of the world’s ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

On January 14, hippies and other counterculture participants swarmed to the polo grounds in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in a gathering called the Human Be-In. Timothy Leary advised ...

Now, one theorist warns that the human civilization of 8.2 billion people is at a critical junction: teetering between what he forecasts will be authoritarian collapse and superabundance.

Jewelry can be just as important as clothing when it comes to curating a personal style. Although some aspects of the accessory are more personal and subjective — wedding bands, family heirlooms ...