The Levant region of the Middle East has long been recognized as a mixing pot of early humans and Neanderthals, some local and some on their way to and from other geographical regions. The many ...

For decades, scientists believed modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage. However, new research has not only challenged this view, it has simultaneously spawned a new mystery ...

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 ...

In mice, at least, it seems to extend lifespans. Those results have not been confirmed in humans, but aspiring Methuselahs (including Mr Johnson) are taking it anyway. Ritalin, prescribed to treat ...

Scientists have now discovered that these parrots may have the same brain mechanism for speech as humans. A study published Wednesday in Nature reveals that budgerigars use brain structures similar to ...

The research, which will be presented at the 2025 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, reveals a nuanced picture of how AI and humans perform differently in humor creation tasks.

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Their goal was to see whether humans held any innate cognitive advantage over their primate cousins. Surprisingly, the human children performed better in only one capacity: social learning.

So far, budgerigars are the only animals known to have language-producing centers akin to those in humans, says Michael Long, a neuroscientist at New York University Langone Health. This “is ...

Superintelligence is coming, but it won't replace humans — for now, at least — Meta's chief AI scientist said. Yann LeCun, Meta's top artificial intelligence exec, said on Tuesday during ...

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 ...