But all of that is outweighed by the plastic, concrete and other material that humans have produced in the last century alone in the form of everything from roads and skyscrapers to cars ...

While one would be hard-pressed to find virtually any similarities between ants and humans, the two species seem to share an unusual ability despite their seemingly unbridgeable differences—they ...

Ancient human relatives ran on two legs, like modern humans, but at a much slower pace, suggest 3D computer simulations of Australopithecus afarensis 1 — a small hominin that lived more than ...

Lisa Kudrow didn't hold back while discussing Here, Robert Zemeckis' latest directorial venture, on the Armchair Expert podcast. The film, which reunites Zemeckis with his Forrest Gump stars Tom ...

Human minibrains in little vials surprised scientists by surviving a stint in low-Earth orbit. US researchers sent lab-grown blobs of human neural tissue known as organoids for a short holiday on the ...

But as we have seen with other influenza strains, the virus continues to evolve. There have been reports of humans being infected without a clear animal contact. A research paper this month ...

My guess is combined I/O bit rate > 1Mbs and augmented humans >1M by 2030.” This statement is a vision for a future where the boundary between humans and machines dissolves at a scale that could ...

Since ChatGPT’s launch two years ago, generative AI (gen AI) has been promising to reshape how work gets done. The use cases are many and varied, and we’re still discovering what’s going to ...

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 ...

According to the most commonly accepted theory, modern humans left Africa around 60,000 years ago, mingling with Neanderthals along the way. This interaction left a legacy of two to three percent ...

Over the past 50,000 years, humans have populated nearly every corner of the globe — and due to geographic barriers, some of these populations then remained isolated for thousands or even tens ...

Musk is so bothered by this, in fact, that he has made it one of his long-term goals to create an interface that allows the human brain to communicate directly with a computer, unencumbered by the ...