Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

Quantum computers process multiple possibilities at once, unlike traditional computers. Quantum properties like entanglement ...

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During that period’s Fourth Dynasty, there was widespread peace and trade, and kings were known as the “Golden Horus” in reference to the god ... where they heard of the human sacrifices, mortuary ...

Your news feature ‘How close is AI to human-level intelligence?’ (Nature 636, 22–25; 2024) describes three abilities that artificial-intelligence tools called large language models (LLMs ...

The SE01 humanoid robot, which previously made headlines for achieving one of the most human-like gaits, has again captured global attention. Chinese robotics firm EngineAI has posted a new video ...

Gavin Newsom’s administration plotted an elaborate rescue mission—for a supposed endangered form of trout. “One of our biggest concerns,” a state Department of Fish and Wildlife manager ...

Seven years and seven months ago, Google changed the world with the Transformer architecture, which lies at the heart of generative AI applications like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Now Google has unveiled ...

But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...