Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...

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Now Google has unveiled a new architecture called Titans, a direct evolution of the Transformer that takes us a step closer to AI that can think like humans. The Transformer architecture has no ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...

Jan. 30, 2025 — The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more resilient to significant structural changes than was ...

As scientists continue to uncover more human species, their discoveries complicate our image of Homo sapiens. Gurche’s models, which rely on fossil bones, help bring ancient humans into focus.

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

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 ...

Crocodile experts responded to recent viral footage of a saltwater crocodile waving its feet in the air in a way that looks like a drowning human Can old crocodiles learn new tricks? The wild ...

Orangutans live only in the jungles of Indonesia. But humans live pretty much everywhere. Our species has spread across frozen tundras, settled on mountaintops and called other extreme ...

New research suggests modern humans aren’t the only hominin species capable of “ecological flexibility” Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Our early human ancestors might have been more ...