Fossils from Xujiayao. (Wu, 2024) "Although we started this project several years ago, we did not expect being able to propose a new hominin (human ancestor) species and then to be able to organize ...

Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) due to his anti-vaccine advocacy. “I think if RFK follows through on his intentions, and I believe he will, and I believe he ...

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbours some 1.5 million years ago. The footprints were left in the mud by two different species ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes mysterious groups like the Denisovans—ancient human relatives whose histories ...

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The looming question is what is the point in which human tasks and AI tasks are best blended? Collectively, these studies show that “human–AI systems do not necessarily achieve better results ...

An excavation team uncovered four sets of footprints preserved in the mud at the Turkana Basin, a site that has led to important breakthroughs in understanding human evolution. The discovery ...

In 2021, a team of paleoanthropologists unearthed something unusual in Kenya. They were searching for human fossils in sediments dating back 1.5 million years, but instead they found the footprint of ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services sent a shudder through the global health community. If confirmed as HHS ...

Pointing to Ukraine, he said human-piloted jets were "obsolete" and "inefficient" and would "just get pilots killed" as drones and counter-air threats become more prolific. In the Ukraine war ...