When the team took a closer look at the ochre-stained bones, they were surprised to find that the “Lapedo child” had a mix of both Neanderthal and human features. Using radiocarbon dating ...

The region has made an “unparalleled contribution to our understanding of early human evolution,” as study co-author Jackson Njau, a paleoanthropologist at Indiana University, tells CNN’s ...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) systems with human-level reasoning are unlikely to be achieved through the approach and technology that have dominated the current boom in AI, according to a survey of ...

The images above depict artificially-derived neurons grown in petri dishes, with a human neuron shown on the left. Artificially-derived chimpanzee neurons grow only one or two neurites (connecting ...

Human beings can’t be fully understood through a single discipline. This unique BSc allows you to combine life sciences with social and historical sciences to pursue your own lines of enquiry – and ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...

(And by "huge" I mean really, really huge—possibly the biggest capital investments the human race has ever undertaken.) If that assumption is false and it can be done much more cheaply ...

China is planning to send two new crews to its Tiangong space station in another busy year of human spaceflight. SpaceX's Crew-10 mission will send two NASA astronauts, a Japanese spaceflyer and a ...