A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

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When Elon Musk talks about robotics, he rarely hides the ambition behind the dream. Tesla's Optimus is pitched as an ...

The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of ...

The Trump adviser’s assertions about the “real world” reflect a deep misunderstanding of Thomas Hobbes’s dog-eat-dog ...

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

New UChicago Divinity School course uses religious texts and popular sci-fi to shed light on what it means to be human ...

So what could possibly connect aliens and us? A new study suggests the answer is mathematics. The researchers argue that math ...

A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells.

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Dyslexia is a common developmental disorder, affecting around 7% of the global population. It is characterized by ...