Despite being bipedal, Lucy’s running capacity was slow and energetically inefficient compared to modern humans, highlighting evolutionary advancements in human anatomy crucial for endurance ...

which was foundational to modern AI. He said the technology had developed “much faster” than he expected and could make humans the equivalents of “three-year-olds” and AI “the grown-ups”.

But all of that is outweighed by the plastic, concrete and other material that humans have produced in the last century alone in the form of everything from roads and skyscrapers to cars ...

Photograph by World History Archive, Alamy Stock Photo Every January 1, millions of people set intentions to exercise more, spend less, or be kinder—a ritual that feels deeply modern but has ...

Additionally, in spite of this lower top speed, Lucy used up between 1.7 and 2.9 times more energy than modern humans do to run that fast, suggesting she would have required significantly more ...

Yet, Salzburg is also a city of contrasts. Modern architecture has made its mark, blending harmoniously with its historic backdrop. Modern projects like Stadt Park Lehen and Paracelsus Bad ...

A team studying the group behavior of ants has found that, in the right circumstances, ants can outsmart humans in collective problem-solving tasks. Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of ...

Human beings are animals, evolved from ancestral great apes. We are part of nature and yet unique in many ways. It was once thought that humans were the only animals with culture: the learned ...

Elija Perrier receives funding from the Australian government. A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general intelligence”.

Yet, the Homo genus, which includes modern humans, defied this trend. “The more species of Homo there were, the higher the rate of speciation. This is almost unparalleled in evolutionary science ...