Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed later in human evolution - BBC A digital reconstruction of a ...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has made an alarming prediction about the future of civilization. With technology and specifically, ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday. The ...

Reactions to Kimmel's suspension, Trump publicly rebukes Putin, and more Length: Long Speed: 1.0x Every three months, participants in the Metaculus forecasting cup try to predict the future for a ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Ray Kurzweil predicts A.I. will reach human-level intelligence by 2029. Courtesy Kurzweil Technologies. “Hollywood portrays A.I. as an alien invasion,” Kurzweil tells Observer. “I don’t see it that ...