Researchers have unearthed two fossils, named Punk and Emo, revealing that ancient molluscs were more complex and adaptable than previously known.

A lawsuit to protect the snail darter from the Tellico Dam in Tennessee offered the first real test of the 1973 Endangered ...

A recent detection of a flesh-eating parasite in southern Mexico has U.S. officials concerned that the previously eradicated New World Screwworm (NWS) could make its way back into the country for the ...

Researchers found evidence that early versions of syphilis-causing bacteria existed in the Americas long before the arrival ...

But as we have seen with other influenza strains, the virus continues to evolve. There have been reports of humans being infected without a clear animal contact. A research paper this month ...

My guess is combined I/O bit rate > 1Mbs and augmented humans >1M by 2030.” This statement is a vision for a future where the boundary between humans and machines dissolves at a scale that could ...

From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’t decompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human biology It can sometimes feel like health ...

Since ChatGPT’s launch two years ago, generative AI (gen AI) has been promising to reshape how work gets done. The use cases are many and varied, and we’re still discovering what’s going to ...

Over the past 50,000 years, humans have populated nearly every corner of the globe — and due to geographic barriers, some of these populations then remained isolated for thousands or even tens ...

The most immediate concern is that mirror bacteria could evade the immune systems of humans, animals and plants. Our immune defences rely on recognising conserved molecular patterns found in ...

An AI startup called Artisan has managed to irritate virtually everybody with a controversial ad campaign in San Francisco, which has littered the city with billboards reading "Stop Hiring Humans." ...

These species, were bipedal and close relatives of modern humans. They lived in parts of Northern Africa, Europe, and Asia, while the first populations of modern humans, Homo sapiens, lived in the ...