Early Europeans known as the Magdalenians celebrated by removing the ears of their enemies, scooping out their brains, and ...

Microplastics are accumulating in human brains at alarming rates, with concentrations rising 50% in the past eight years.

There are no two ways about it—space will kill you if you give it half a chance. More than land, sea, or air, the space ...

In the 1990s, archaeologists in Poland excavated one of these settlements from 18,000 years ago called Maszycka Cave. Now, researchers believe there is conclusive evidence the cave was home to ...

Archaeological evidence shows the Magdalenian people from 18,000 years ago likely were engaged in cannibalism. As part of the ...

The toothlike structures represent a step toward bioengineered replacements for dental implants, say researchers behind the ...

A Missoula law firm says the Butte-Silver Bow Coroner’s Office allowed a man’s body to “suffer significant decomposition ... and refrigeration of human remains and communicating autopsy ...

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is well known as a fruit pest, especially in summer. It is widely used in research and has become one of the best established model organisms for the study of ...

Your news feature ‘How close is AI to human-level intelligence?’ (Nature 636, 22–25; 2024) describes three abilities that artificial-intelligence tools called large language models (LLMs ...

The human hand is one of the most staggeringly sophisticated and physiologically intricate parts of the body. It has more than 30 muscles, 27 joints alongside a network of ligaments and tendons ...

The SE01 humanoid robot, which previously made headlines for achieving one of the most human-like gaits, has again captured global attention. Chinese robotics firm EngineAI has posted a new video ...