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Ancient humans adapted to deeper forests as they journeyed from Africa, moving away from the savanna. Lionel Bret/Eurelios/Science Photo Library This is an excerpt from our…
An orca shares its meal with researchers Orca Research Trust Orcas have been observed seemingly presenting deceased prey to humans. Marine research organization Bay Cetology, led…
Pria Anand sees “a vast marginal space” between health and illness David Degner Electric of the Heart Pria Anand (Virago) (UK); Washington Square Press (US) As…
A team of biologists from the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health has found that half of certain organelles can make up to…
The identification of human footprints in White Sands, New Mexico, estimated to be between 21,000 and 23,000 years old, was a significant advancement in our comprehension…
Ancient Migration: A Journey Through a Colder Climate to the AmericasGetty Images/iStockphoto This excerpt comes from our Human Stories newsletter, which explores the archaeological revolution. Subscribe…
Prior to the deployment of the omnipotent system, AI companies are encouraged to replicate the safety assessments that formed the basis of Robert Oppenheimer’s initial nuclear…
Upon witnessing wild baboons in Kenya, Matsumotoda Ogawa, an evolutionary biologist and primate researcher at the University of Lycys in Japan, observed firsthand the violence among…
The formation of a large overpass 20 million years ago connected continents, influenced climate, separated oceans, and changed the course of evolution. According to recent papers…
tThis is some kind of guy looking at Google Maps for fun. I’m that guy. As a child, I went through the stages of cartography, drawing…
IThe magician was a child in 1941, sitting on a general public school entrance exam with only pencils and paper. I read the following: “Write about…
What health professionals see when overseeing IVF procedures via live streamsPossible life sciences A highly automated form of in vitro fertilization (IVF) leads to successful births…
Ship cemetery in the desert of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistans@owwl / alamy Unsustainable irrigation and drought have caused changes that have empty almost all of…
Today, the Sahara desert is one of the least popular places on our planet. But that wasn’t always the case. Returning the clock to 7,000 years,…
The Mid-Lestic Age is considered a dynamic period in European and African history, but is generally considered a static period in East Asia. The discovery of…
In a cave in northern Spain, researchers found fossilized face fragments of ancient human ancestors. The ruins, known as “Pink,” are estimated to be between 1.1…
sO Microsoft It's decided An internet telephony company purchased it for $8.5 billion (£6.6 billion) in 2011 to end Skype. Millions of unfortunate users flock to…
An international team of researchers analyzed moans, moans, whistles, bark, screams, and creaks in recordings of humpback whale songs collected over eight years in New Caledonia.…
Humpback whales in the South PacificTony Woo/Nature Picture Library/Aramie Humpback whale songs have statistical patterns in their structure, but they are very similar to those found…
When I interviewed a nurse practitioner in California, what she valued most about nursing was the “human element” of being with other people. “I think we…
Humanoid robot waltzes with the help of AI trained on human motion capture recordings Xuxin Cheng and Mazeyu Ji AI that helps humanoid robots mirror human…
Archaeologists say they have extracted various starch granules from stone tools found at an early Middle Pleistocene site in Israel. These include acorns, grass grains, water…
Most of us are aware that our planet is constantly spinning around its own axis as it orbits the sun. However, the Earth actually rotates around…
Scientists sequenced and analyzed the genomes of seven people who lived between 42,000 and 49,000 years ago in Ranis, Germany, and Zlatiks, Czech Republic. As a…
You’ll never know who spoke the first sentence or what they said, but you can have fun guessing. Perhaps they came from the mouths of Stone…
Sex in the future is expected to evolve due to technological advancements. While people will continue to engage in sexual activities, the reasons for doing so…
A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Reading and the University of Durham has revealed that the increase in relative brain size, known…
overview Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at the same time, a study…
Footprints thought to have been left by an individual of Paranthropus boiseiNeil T. Roach Preserved footprints in Kenya appear to record two different species of ancient…
Scientific research revolves around solving complex problems, and so do computer games. In 2008, a group of scientists developed the first video game that allows non-scientists…
Bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice were used to estimate past temperaturesaldiami/Andreas Alexander/Alamy Humankind has already caused around 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming since the start of…
A new study led by scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, Karolinska Institutet, and Linköping University has revealed a landscape view of the human sense of…
The veil of mystery surrounding the Treasury Monument in Petra, Jordan has been lifted once again. Beneath an ancient building carved out of rock, archaeologists discovered…
Archaeologists excavating Tam Parin (Monkey Cave) in northeastern Laos have discovered some of the earliest fossil evidence homo sapiens Presence in mainland Southeast Asia. Excavation survey…
Can AI design chips that are more efficient than those made by humans? Yuichiro Kayano/Getty Images Google DeepMind says its artificial intelligence is already helping design…
The so-called i-motif is a knot-like DNA structure that forms in the nuclei of human cells and is thought to provide important genome control. Garvan Institute…
South American lungfish probably has a lot of 'junk' DNAKatherine Segers/Louisiana State University The largest sequenced genome on record, containing 90 billion DNA letters, belongs to…
Is it in the way we live, laugh, love? Or is it our aversion to clichés? Deep inside each of us, there must be something that…
I lost to a cyborg. When I played the online game WebGrid, using my finger on my laptop’s trackpad to click squares that appear unpredictably on…
East Africa contains the world’s most complete record of human evolution, yet scientists know little about how long-term biogeographic dynamics in the region have influenced human…