Trendy weight-loss drugs making headlines for shrinking waistlines may also be shrinking the human heart and other muscles, according to a new University of Alberta study in JACC: Basic to ...

It may sound dramatic, but the rate at which your heart is beating plays a key role in how long you’re likely to live. According to expert cardiologists and academic researchers, resting heart ...

It’s been more than seven years since Martin Henderson left ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy after two seasons as a series regular, playing Dr. Nathan Riggs. While the venerable medical drama is known ...

From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’t decompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human biology It can sometimes feel like health ...

The heart rate level to burn fat will depend on your age, diet, and fitness, typically falling between 64% to 76% of your maximum heart rate. For example, a 40-year-old swimmer should try to keep ...

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.

Professor Caleb Ferguson receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, Medical Research Future Fund, Heart Foundation (Australia) and Stroke Foundation (Australia).

They were part of a pioneer population that eventually died out, making them a ‘lost branch’ of the human family tree. Zooarchaeologist Dr Geoff Smith studied more than a thousand bone fragments found ...

A pair of studies analysed samples of modern human and Neanderthal DNA spanning 50,000 years of human history to discover when the two groups bred. Both studies suggested this inter-species ...

It turns out the LRJ people were part of the early human expansion from Africa to other parts of the world. But theirs was a surprisingly recent migration. The common ancestors of the LRJ people ...

Although these Homo sapiens populations got an evolutionary advantage from the new Neanderthal genes, not everyone who mingled with Neanderthals made it, and some modern human lineages went extinct.