The military exposed thousands of servicemen to radioactivity when it called them to participate in nuclear weapons tests, ...

Do mathematical skills that children acquire in the classroom transfer to real-world settings — and vice versa? Evidence from five large groups of children in India reveals that current school ...

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said that his AI startup is racing to secure the computing power needed to meet demand for its generative AI chatbot Claude. “The surge in demand ...

Amid “alarming” concerns of rising cancer rates among firefighters, a new decontamination facility for Neebing’s fire department is to be in operation in two years. The, 4,000-square-foot structure, ...

"A world in which human wages crash from AI — logically, necessarily — is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species such as the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis and the powerfully built Homo naledi. A pinkie ...

“If you think about what we might expect humans to accomplish in an area like biology in 100 years, I think a doubling of the human lifespan is not at all crazy,” he said yesterday (Jan ...

The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different sites across the country are clearly remnants of archaic hominins — the formal name for species in the human lineage ...

According to a press release from China’s Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, more than 12,000 human runners will square off against dozens of bipedal, humanoid robots from more ...

Our hands perform thousands of complex tasks every day – can artificial intelligence help robots match these extraordinary human appendages? The human hand is one of the most staggeringly ...

Your news feature ‘How close is AI to human-level intelligence?’ (Nature 636, 22–25; 2024) describes three abilities that artificial-intelligence tools called large language models (LLMs ...

The SE01 humanoid robot, which previously made headlines for achieving one of the most human-like gaits, has again captured global attention. Chinese robotics firm EngineAI has posted a new video ...