Genes make us who we are—but are they shaped by chance, natural selection, or something else?

Scientists in China have developed a wearable robot that turns humans into ‘bionic centaurs’ by giving them two extra mechanical legs behind a person. The system effectively creates a human-robot ...

Humans are closely related to chimpanzees and bonobos, but what are the key factors that make humans genetically different? A new study looks at the process of DNA methylation, in which chemical tags ...