A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary ...

Animals come in an extraordinary range of body shapes. A starfish looks nothing like an earthworm, a mouse, or a human. Yet even closely related species can appear radically different: corals, ...

Suspicion and affection. Apprehension and excitement. Most people have mixed feelings about AI English, whether or not they always recognize it ...

A linguist explains what makes human English human, and why you shouldn’t overdo it with large language models.

Analysis of hundreds of environmental exposures and health outcomes quantifies influence of nongenetic factors ...

Autism is a spectrum. This metaphor is a helpful way to explain why autism looks and feels so varied across different people. Since 2013 it’s been baked into the name of the diagnosis itself, autism ...

Looking out to the future, we see a gradual but also very important shift occurring right under our feet; the Earth's own ...

Researchers have identified a distinct and reproducible gene expression program associated with neurotransmission in the ...

A new scientific study suggests genetics may play a far larger role in determining human lifespan than previously thought.

Trinity applied to SIRA to vary a condition on its existing New South Wales specialised insurer licence so it cou ...

If someone told you there’s a museum in Brooklyn dedicated entirely to bones, you’d probably assume they were joking or possibly describing a very niche restaurant. The Bone Museum is very real, very ...

AI chatbots may homogenize human writing, reasoning, and perspectives. That is the warning in an opinion paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences00003-3), where computer scientists and psychologists ...