A new library is being devised in which people can be "checked out" to discuss their own experiences.
IBM have developed microchips capable of rewiring themselves and mimicking the human brain.
An anthropologist has claimed that humans didn't evolve from apes - instead apes evolved from humans.
Scientists are demanding new rules to prevent experiments to give lab animals human-like attributes.
Scientists now believe homo erectus and modern humans never co-existed in the distant past.
A new study claims human activites generate more CO2 in 3 days than volcanoes do in a whole year.
Developed at the University of Zurich, the humanoid creation has its own artificial muscles and tendons.
Scientists warn that human activities may have pushed our oceans in to a new "extinction phase".
In a new stem cell breakthrough, pigs could be used to grow human organs for use in transplants.
Scientists have managed to monitor in considerable detail a human brain as it falls unconscious.
A new study finds that the human brain automatically limits how many true friends you can have.
The aptly dubbed "Team Frankenstein" hope to construct a computer model of the human brain.
Have we so irrevocably altered our planet that we've actually entered in to a new geological age ?
The closer to human a robot appears to be the more likely it is for people to find it repulsive.
An ancient human ancestor known as nutcracker man may have preferred to munch on grass.
Study sheds light on the origins of leprosy for people who have the malady yet don't know how they got it
Two Italian entrepreneurs have launched a perfume inspired by the scent of human blood.
A new UN treaty is being drafted that would see planet Earth being granted the same rights as humans.
50 years ago today cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made history when he became the first ever human in space.
Ancient humans remains are thought to be those of a gay man based on the way he was buried.