All living creatures evolve over the years, adapting to their immediate living conditions in order to survive. That includes humans as well, who have evolved over millennia in response to various changes. Could >>
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Humans are still evolving, and here’s the hard proof
Scientists have been monitoring the development of a new evolutionary change in humans. More people are being born with an “extra” artery running down their forearms. The change is likely to be present >>
Some human brain tissue holds traces of Neanderthal DNA
Neanderthals mixed with humans a long time ago, but after they died out their DNA lived on in a large segment of the human population. A new study reveals that lab-grown brain tissue >>
Man, Samsung’s new ‘Neon’ artificial humans really suck
In the quest to make robots more human-like, the holy grail has always been a humanoid machine that is as indistinguishable from a real person as possible. It’s a high bar to clear >>
Ravens have emotional quirks similar to humans, study finds
Humans have very advanced brains — or at least we think that’s the case based on what we know about life from an admittedly small sample size of a single planet — but >>
The next ‘gold rush’ will happen in space, but should we try to prevent it?
Earth is a pretty big place, but it has a finite amount of resources. Mining companies that seek to exploit untouched parts of our planet are quickly running out of places to dig >>
Ancient humans may have been better at breathing than we are today
It might be tempting to imagine our ancient ancestors as simply less sophisticated versions of ourselves, but scientists know that there are some very big differences between modern humans and the bipeds that >>
Archaeologists uncover oldest weapons ever found in North America, and they might rewrite history
For many years the consensus among archaeologists was that humans began settling in North America around 13,000 years ago. This timeline was based on artifacts found that dated back between 12,700 and 13,000 >>
