Science communicator and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson isn’t as passionate or excited as Musk about shipping humans to Mars. In fact, Tyson has voiced his concerns about Musk’s plan in the public ...

“In this safe and special space, people will be able to discuss challenges facing our country ... programme The Human Rights Festival provides a platform to celebrate local art and culture.

But life on Earth is never quite so straightforward, especially not when it comes to the most socially complex species we know: humans. University of Cambridge researchers have now uncovered an ...

While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion ... consequences in terms of resource allocation within a country, but other experts remain skeptical that decades ...

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Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the moon and worships gods? For decades, many scholars have argued that the difference ...

The country scored 7.736 out of 10 (which was slightly ... “This year’s report quantifies the human elements of life that are often hard to measure," Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, director of Oxford ...

Today’s artificial intelligence (AI) systems can’t beat humans on long tasks, but they’re improving at a rapid pace and could close the gap sooner than many anticipated, according to an ...

Today, Chinese ships outnumber those of the U.S. Navy 400 to 295. If the United States’ shipbuilding pace remains unchanged, this so-called ship gap will only continue to grow. Of course, raw numbers ...

However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So time in the weightlessness of space can take years from which to fully recover. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore ...

The evolutionary path leading to the rise of modern humans is full of twists and turns, and the latest surprise reveals that our species likely sprung forth from two ancient intermingling populations.

Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope showed that more galaxies rotate in one direction than the other. According to one researcher, this could mean that the universe is actually ...