Consistent with the general trend of incorporating artificial intelligence into nearly every field, researchers and ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

People's perceptions and their interpretation of the world are known to often be influenced by their expectations and past ...

The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.

Scientists first read the human genome, a three-billion-letter biological book, in April 2003. Since then, researchers have steadily advanced the ability to write DNA, moving far beyond single-gene ...

Often dismissed as a ‘soft’ discipline, it’s actually the most practical route to value creation. We have a growing problem ...

The 67,800-year-old reddish-colored stenciled image has become faded over time and is barely visible on a cave wall, but ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a mysterious human ancestor.

Much of the public and policy conversation, the authors note, has focused on economic growth, geopolitical competition, labor ...

The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life, the 2023 book by Dacher Keltner. He pioneered the ...

A controversial Hepatitis B vaccine safety trial will go on as planned in Africa, amid concerns over its ethics and design ...