For the many wondrous things humans can do, we can't fly on our own. But if we could, how big would our wings be? Of course, the answer depends on the person's size. But someone who's about 155 ...

China will host the world's first half-marathon race between humans and robots. Dozens of humanoid robots are expected to join the 21km (13-mile) race in Beijing in April, according to local media.

In the race to build the best humanoid robots, China is quite literally ahead of the pack. As the South China Morning Post reports, the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area — or E ...

As the bird flu outbreak affecting poultry, dairy cows and humans in the U.S. continues to make headlines, here’s what to know about the situation as of January 23. The U.S. reported its first ...

"A world in which human wages crash from AI — logically, necessarily — is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero ...

The claims were based on the common belief that all human zygotes and embryos begin as female. The current scientific understanding of sexual differentiation no longer holds that female is the ...

It is the first time researchers use data from ... A New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding With Modern Humans Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans.

“If you think about what we might expect humans to accomplish in an area like biology in 100 years, I think a doubling of the human lifespan is not at all crazy,” he said yesterday (Jan ...

"Successful self-replication under no human assistance is the essential step for AI to outsmart (humans), and is an early signal for rogue AIs," the researchers stated in their study, published on ...

Dec. 5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes ... A Fossil First: Scientists Find ...

One UK-based company is working on creating underwater habitats for long-term human sea exploration. "We took a step back and recognised that the ocean, and particularly beneath the surface of the ...

To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The story of how humans evolved is a long and winding one — and it grows more complicated with each passing year. Discoveries in the past two ...