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, ...

This method provided fresh insights into the genetic diversity of early humans. “Immediately after the two ancestral populations split, we see a severe bottleneck in one of them – suggesting it shrank ...

Can humans really go to Mars? Mars shares reasonable similarities with Earth. Similar tilt axis, summer and winter seasons, clouds, volcanoes, polar ice caps, much more. A Martian day (sol) is only 40 ...

Undoubtedly. But as we report this week, Mr Johnson is not alone. He is part of a growing movement that sees the human body as just another piece of hardware to be hacked, optimised and upgraded.

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 ... suggesting it shrank to a very small ...

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 new study suggests we might be vastly ...

And the way the brains of small parrots known as budgerigars bestow this gift is remarkably similar to human speech, researchers report March 19 in Nature. So far, budgerigars are the only animals ...

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.

However, one study showed that this training and exercise wasn’t enough to prevent all losses in muscle function and size. According to NASA, in space, blood can accumulate in the head more than ...

The image above was shown on a monochromatic display with pixels less than 100 micrometres across, about the width of a human hair ... 90 nanometres wide — the size of a typical virus, and ...