Effective leadership of the development, deployment and monitoring of AI requires addressing risks to people and the environment. It also calls for ensuring equity – fair access to AI’s benefits and ...

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An ancient human ancestor called Homo floresiensis was likely a scavenger who subsisted on the scraps left behind by the ...

While laughing seems uniquely human, it is not. Researchers now have compared laughter in humans to laughter in the various ...

The “Frozen Evolution” Myth A popular assumption says medicine, technology, and home comforts have put humanity beyond the ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

Many of the boulders scattered across the Swiss landscape did not originate where they now stand. Instead, they were carried ...

Modern genetic research is “pushing the boundaries of what’s possible” by bringing extinct animals back to life, but could it ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

European brown bears are masters of survival: These animals have weathered Pleistocene climate fluctuations and survived the cycles of ice ages and interglacial periods to the present day. Zoologists ...