Researchers reveal that Benjamina, a prehistoric girl with a skull deformity, is the oldest evidence of human social empathy.

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science ...

WASHINGTON — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age ...

ANYmal-D, the badminton-playing quadruped robot from ETH Zurich, combines artificial intelligence with whole-body coordination to rally with human players for up to 10 shots.

From 1942 to 1953, the Hooker Chemical Company, which produced industrial chemicals, dug canal in the town as a chemical waste dump, under government sanction. Approximately 22,000 tons of waste ...

This Q&A seeks to answer some common questions about reparations for Black people in the United States as a remedy for enslavement and its legacies, as a matter of human rights.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are on track to release so much greenhouse gas in less than three years that a key threshold for limiting global warming will be nearly unavoidable, according to a study to be ...

Understanding these dimensions is the key to understanding AI-human replacement. Speed First, speed. There are tasks that humans are perfectly good at but are not nearly as fast as AI.

Researchers first found a set of human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Now, researchers are confident that humans existed as long ago as 23,000 years ago.

Early humans survived in a range of extreme environments before global migration, study says Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to ...