A new study reveals that popular diabetes and weight loss medications like Ozempic and Wegovy may offer unexpected health ...

Most human cases of bird flu in North America have been mild, a fact that’s underscored by a new study of the first 46 confirmed human H5N1 infections in the United States this year. But the ...

All of us, all eight billion people on this planet, belong to a single species. We Homo sapiens are the last hominins on Earth.Not long ago, it was widely believed that modern humans followed a ...

Prehistoric sloths were massive creatures with large claws, suggesting early humans in the Americas might have coexisted with them for millennia. New findings from Brazil's Santa Elina site imply ...

On Christmas Eve, an autonomous spacecraft flew past the Sun, closer than any human-made object before it. Swooping through the atmosphere, Nasa's Parker Solar Probe was on a mission to discover ...

Teleoperated robots at scale, even if years away, could mean a seismic shift in how we think about labor and automation. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on ...

The Moon holds incredible promise as a stepping stone for human exploration and a potential source of resources to sustain life on Earth and beyond. But history has shown us the consequences of ...

Clues based on technological advancements, what was trending in 2024, and the public’s appetite for AI offer a glimpse into what humans may be looking at on their screens, billboards ...

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 ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now ...

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 ...

A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general intelligence”. On December 20, OpenAI’s o3 system scored 85% on the ARC ...