In this video, I explain the difference between Hominids and Hominins, including the timeline of when hominins split from ...

The only remaining autonomous 'jumping gene' can only attach to, and stitch a copy of itself into, DNA when it builds up into large clusters and only as cells divide.

Altman's World venture wants to convince people to scan their eyeballs to prove they're human amidst a proliferation of AIs ...

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At the World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (WAVES) 2025 in Mumbai, tech leaders emphasized that Artificial ...

DNA found in museum pieces could provide a unique opportunity to study the history and spread of infectious diseases, ...

The MAGA world went into full meltdown Saturday after the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s latest deportation push—targeting a group of Venezuelan men in Texas—to ...

Every now and then, a Silicon Valley startup launches with such an “absurdly” described mission that it’s difficult to discern if the startup is for real or just satire. Such is the case ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed. What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

The world is full of various "signals" providing those rewards, if the agent is allowed to look for them, Silver and Sutton suggest. "Where do rewards come from, if not from human data?