The Many Humans of the Globe As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with several other hominins. These include the best-known of our evolutionary ...

XPANCEO founders on building the first interface designed for the body, not the screen — and why human–tech integration is the next leap forward. When it comes to the future of interfaces, we're used ...

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Researchers have uncovered a complete Quina technological system in the Longtan site in southwest China. The discovery challenges the widely held perception that the Middle Paleolithic period was ...

Cornell researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move within and bind ...

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The moment a creature dies, its DNA begins to break down. Half of it degrades every 521 years on average. By about 6.8 million years, even under ideal preservation conditions in cold, stable ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

Technology permeates all aspects of our lives, including our most human moments such as romance, sex, and parenting. The lines between tech and humanity are blurring—chatbots look and sound more human ...