As the mercury plummets and back-to-work blues set in for much of humankind in the UK, many other creatures are cosily spending winter in a blissfully dormant state of hibernation. It would be easy to ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognize objects, navigate cluttered spaces, and sort thousands of parcels an hour. But ask a robot to touch ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

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It’s been 21 years since Ken Jennings lost his streak on Jeopardy! The G.O.A.T. won 74 games and lost to Nancy Zerg on his 75th game on November 30, 2004. But what happened to Zerg after that shocking ...

The high elevations and thin air of the Tibetan Plateau may seem dangerous, but not to the people who have been living there for thousands of years. Tibetan mothers who birthed more children were ...

As we age, the human brain rewires itself. The process happens in distinct phases, or “epochs,” according to new research, as the structure of our neural networks changes and our brains reconfigure ...

Kissing occurred around 21.5 to 16.9 million years ago, the researchers said. Stories have long been swapped on awkward first kisses and princesses smooching frogs, but a new study suggests the ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...

As artificial intelligence becomes less discernible and more prevalent, Vince Gilligan is setting an example about transparency in Hollywood. The Pluribus creator, whose new show premiered the first ...

A rat-infested home has plagued an Irvine neighborhood with rodents running around the streets for the last few weeks. Resident Sandy Turner said rats mostly come out of the house at night and camp ...

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