The Iron Giant came out in 1999, and in some ways, it appears to have sparked a genre of stories that continues to put out ...

One figure widely quoted by pest control companies: There are 1,000 pounds of termites for every human on Earth. If you like big numbers, the 2018 report is delicious reading. Recently ...

Elija Perrier receives funding from the Australian government. A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general intelligence”.

Human minibrains in little vials surprised scientists by surviving a stint in low-Earth orbit. US researchers sent lab-grown blobs of human neural tissue known as organoids for a short holiday on the ...

That is until we got an Ooni Koda 16 Pizza Oven. We’d been dancing around buying one for a while (it is a big investment, after all) but finally bought one after one too many rubbery ...

From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’t decompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human biology It can sometimes feel like health ...

Musk is so bothered by this, in fact, that he has made it one of his long-term goals to create an interface that allows the human brain to communicate directly with a computer, unencumbered by the ...

When modern humans arrived in New Guinea roughly 50,000 years ago, they met and mixed with the Denisovans, a now-extinct group of human ancestors who originated in Asia. But after that initial ...

Archaeologists discovered a skull there, estimated to be 45,000 years old, and belonging to an early modern human. Unfortunately, this individual’s cultural and archaeological context remained unclear ...

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.

They were part of a pioneer population that eventually died out, making them a ‘lost branch’ of the human family tree. Zooarchaeologist Dr Geoff Smith studied more than a thousand bone fragments found ...