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From record-breaking album runs to historic chart achievements, female musicians have shaped the industry, proving that “girls ran the world” over the past 25 years. Leading the pack is Taylor ...

Can humans really go to Mars? Mars shares reasonable similarities with Earth. Similar tilt axis, summer and winter seasons, clouds, volcanoes, polar ice caps, much more. A Martian day (sol) is only 40 ...

One of the smallest human relatives ever found has been unearthed in South Africa. Standing just 3 feet, 4.5 inches (1.03 meters) tall, the adult Paranthropus robustus, who died 2 million years ...

But life on Earth is never quite so straightforward, especially not when it comes to the most socially complex species we know: humans. University of Cambridge researchers have now uncovered an ...

Sex refers to biology: chromosomal makeup, hormones, and anatomy. People are most often assigned male or female at birth based on their external anatomy; some people do not fit into that sex binary ...

Charlie Hall is Polygon’s tabletop editor. In 12-plus years as a journalist & photographer, he has covered simulation, strategy, and spacefaring games, as well as public policy. Howard also ...

Colonel Geoffrey Noble accepted the Massachusetts State Police Trial Board ... The messages prove one thing, and that Michael is human - not corrupt, not incompetent in his role as a homicide ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a new study suggests we might be vastly ...

However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So time in the weightlessness of space can take years from which to fully recover. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore ...

Today’s artificial intelligence (AI) systems can’t beat humans on long tasks, but they’re improving at a rapid pace and could close the gap sooner than many anticipated, according to an ...

Luna is a robot dog that learns and adapts like humans The robot dog has a functional digital nervous system Future humanoid robots could be used in space, deep seas STOCKHOLM, March 19 (Reuters ...