Most Americans imagine human trafficking as a violent kidnapping or a "stranger danger" crime—someone abducted from a parking ...

As AI assumes more and more programming tasks, engineers should instead deepen their creativity and intuition to provide real ...

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

A biocomputer harnesses biologically derived materials, such as DNA, proteins, or living tissue (e.g., lab-grown neurons), to ...

Researchers have developed an AI system that learns about the world via videos and demonstrates a notion of “surprise” when ...

Ecological medicine is a new approach to health science that draws on a very old idea: connecting with each other, with ...

In a new research project led by the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheim, scientists are investigating how ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Autoimmune diseases misidentify parts of the body as a threat. Dehumanization mirrors this error. Here's why we dismiss ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

From custom gene editing to a discovery that could help stop pancreatic cancer before it starts, these advances offer a ...