Can apes play pretend? Scientists use an imaginary tea party to find out
By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and…
Romans used human faeces as medicine 1,900 years ago: Study | Dark brown fragments were found | Inshorts – Inshorts
Romans used human faeces as medicine 1,900 years ago: Study | Dark brown fragments were found | Inshorts InshortsRomans…
China’s Xigou Site Yields Evidence of Advanced Stone Tool Technology
Technological innovations in Africa and Western Europe in the later part of the Middle Pleistocene signal the behavioral…
Enigmatic Hominins May Have Overlapped with Homo sapiens on Sulawesi
At Leang Bulu Bettue, a rock-shelter in the Maros-Pangkep karst region on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, paleoanthropologists…
Gut Microbes Played Role in Evolution of Human Brain, New Study Suggests
Compared to other primates, humans have remarkably large brains relative to their body sizes. The resultant high demands…
Researchers Sequence Genome of 200,000-Year-Old Denisovan
A research team led by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology scientists has generated the high-quality genome assembly…
European Homo sapiens May Have Been Hunting with Bow and Arrow Earlier than Previously Believed
In a new paper published this month in the journal iScience, researchers from the University of Tübingen and…
‘Beachy Head Woman’ Originated from Southern England, Ancient DNA Study Shows
The skeletal remains of an individual colloquially referred to as Beachy Head Woman were re-discovered in the Eastbourne…
Remarkable Fossil from South Africa May Be New Species of Australopithecus: Study
New research led by scientists from the University of Cambridge and Latrobe University challenges the classification of the…
AI Reaches Human-Level Skill in Language Analysis, Study Finds
New research shows AI can analyze language with skills rivaling human experts. Credits: Jernej Furman from Slovenia, CC…
See the maximum Social Security benefit for ages 62 to 85 in 2026
Those who work long, high-paying careers can receive thousands of dollars above the average Social Security benefit. Adam…
Elon Musk Says AI Will Fix the US Debt Crisis Within 3 Years
Elon Musk says the US debt problem has only one escape hatch: AI. Musk, in a conversation with…