When the team took a closer look at the ochre-stained bones, they were surprised to find that the “Lapedo child” had a mix of both Neanderthal and human features. Using radiocarbon dating ...

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its ...

The researchers unearthed 27 bone tools between 2015 and 2022 in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, which is part of a UNESCO World Heritage site dubbed the “Cradle of Humankind” for its previous ...

In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought to have been made and used by an ancestral human species of hominid called Homo habilis 1.5 million years ago. Known as ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new fossil discovery of Paranthropus robustus, an early human ancestor, reveals it was a habitual upright walker, similar to modern humans. The individual was ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems with human-level reasoning are unlikely to be achieved through the approach and technology that have dominated the current boom in AI, according to a survey of ...

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Myanmar is mired in one of the world’s worst human rights crises, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday, describing conditions there as “a litany of human suffering.” ...

The images above depict artificially-derived neurons grown in petri dishes, with a human neuron shown on the left. Artificially-derived chimpanzee neurons grow only one or two neurites (connecting ...

Human beings can’t be fully understood through a single discipline. This unique BSc allows you to combine life sciences with social and historical sciences to pursue your own lines of enquiry – and ...

(And by "huge" I mean really, really huge—possibly the biggest capital investments the human race has ever undertaken.) If that assumption is false and it can be done much more cheaply ...

China is planning to send two new crews to its Tiangong space station in another busy year of human spaceflight. SpaceX's Crew-10 mission will send two NASA astronauts, a Japanese spaceflyer and a ...