Ten years ago, I would have turned my nose up at the idea that we already understood how to get machines to think. In the 2010s, my team at Google Research was working on a wide variety of ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Artificial intelligence has painted a startling picture of human evolution, suggesting that by the year 3025, our species could bear little resemblance to its current form. Prolonged digital immersion ...

Fossil records and archaeological findings suggest a correlation between the two, but they do not yet provide definitive proof that the evolution of the brain and hands was directly linked in a ...

A study led by Dr. Li Chuanyun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has revealed how recently evolved human-specific genes—critical for ...

A new study finds autism and schizophrenia may lie at the crux of what makes humans uniquely intelligent. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain unique ...

A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution.

As a child, I was captivated by the promise of personal computers, mesmerized by the glow of light, full of potential ideas radiating from the screen. That fascination ignited a lifelong passion for ...

While the Vatican acknowledges stages of technological development, it lacks a model of integrating science and religion that can adequately assess the influence of technology. The Vatican's approach, ...