Recent fossil discoveries have revealed that two million years ago, one of our distant human ancestors, Paranthropus robustus ...

Evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks talks to The Conversation Weekly about AI’s potential to influence our evolution.

A map of part of a mouse brain, which is expected to be generalisable to people, could help scientists understand behaviours, ...

For decades, scientists believed modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage. However, new research has not only challenged this view, it has simultaneously spawned a new mystery ...

Astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Willmore thanked Elon Musk for bringing them back to their home, Earth. The duo, initially sent for an eight-day-mission had to endure a total of 286 days on the ...

BRYAN JOHNSON wants to live for ever. The American businessman pops a hundred pills a day, never eats after 11am, and obsessively monitors dozens of his body’s “biomarkers”. The goal, as he ...

We've long assumed our species evolved from a tidy, single stream of ancestors. But life on Earth is never quite so straightforward, especially not when it comes to the most socially complex species ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a ...

When it comes to speech, parrots have the gift of gab. And the way the brains of small parrots known as budgerigars bestow this gift is remarkably similar to human speech, researchers report March ...

Artificial superintelligence is commonly understood as AI systems more advanced than human thinking. Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, says that people will still be the boss of AI.

(NewsNation) — Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, as well as two other NASA astronauts, have left the International Space Station after being stuck for nine months after a Boeing test flight. The return ...

Physicists have created the tiniest light-emitting diode (LED) displays ever 1. The image above was shown on a monochromatic display with pixels less than 100 micrometres across, about the width ...