Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

What will happen when artificial intelligence (AI) becomes smarter than humans? In the future workplace, will AI become our "friendly colleague" or a "cold replacement"? In a new book titled ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Scientists in Ethiopia unearthed pieces of 2.65 million-year-old fossilized teeth belonging to two members of a newly discovered Homo species that could challenge previously accepted understandings of ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study published in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University in Sweden show ...