Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

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Will humanity extend into the far future? It's likely many of us think it should. The problem is that each of us, individually and collectively, act otherwise—we are destroying the environment and ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

Will Lissman took over The Honest Kitchen after its founder spent two decades lobbying the FDA to create a human-grade pet ...

One of the most infamous unsolved murders in America has long been enshrouded by mythic storytelling. Why is this?

Geneticist and entrepreneur Adrian Woolfson argues that genome engineering and AI will let us design organisms beyond nature’s limits ...

In recent decades, we saw the evolution of the real estate industry, marked by major design leaps in building integrated communities, ...

The next phase of AI, already underway, will integrate text with vision, sound, motion and even touch. This will produce systems that no longer 'read about' the world but perceive it.

Artificial intelligence continues to reshape industries, workplaces and public conversations, but according to digital ...