A new skull-based analysis of Neanderthal brains suggests that these ancient hominins’ range of intelligence largely ...

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

For decades, paleoanthropologists have largely agreed that somewhere along the evolutionary course from apelike ancestors to modern humans, our bodies got dramatically larger. However, one lingering ...

At the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Guangzhou, students can listen to lectures given by AI avatars that ...

The idea that an advanced civilization existed on Earth long before humans is fascinating, but scientists aren't convinced. Experts have explored this possibility by asking what traces a technological ...

At the quantum level, there’s a principle called non-locality. It refers not only to “the profound interconnectedness of the universe,” but to something called “entanglement,” a phenomenon whereby ...

Earlier this week, I shared the experience of discovering a bullet hole in the window of my downtown office at the Akron Beacon Journal. Though Akron police said the bullet strike was most likely ...

While most libraries prefer that readers use their quiet voices, we just visited a library in Copenhagen where talking is actually encouraged. Ronni Abergel founded The Human Library (or ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Why do we kiss? The answer involves ancient apes, immune ...

The idea that machines would be cheaper and more efficient than humans has long shaped expectations about automation. That assumption is starting to break down. Training a large model to handle ...