Some “clicks” made by sperm whales may actually be “clacks,” but marine biologists debate what, if anything, that means.

Residents of Diepsloot, one of Johannesburg’s most densely populated townships, are living in appalling conditions as ...

A San Francisco Board of Supervisors panel heard emotional testimony from the family of a man who died outside a Tenderloin reentry facility as well as from the center’s operators.

For tens of thousands of years, early humans painted animals on cave walls with incredible realism - but almost never painted themselves. Faces were missing, bodies were simplified, and human ...

A Colorado judge has rejected the plea agreement of a funeral home owner accused of stashing nearly 190 decaying bodies in a bug-infested building.

Join us for an exciting conversation with 2024 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience recipient Nancy Kanwisher. Dr. Kanwisher's lab asks, what is the nature of the human mind? Using brain imaging to look for ...

Long before photography or sculpture, someone carved a human face - and it survived tens of thousands of years. This discovery offers a haunting look at how our ancestors first saw themselves, frozen ...

Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the evolutionary advantages of these traits, finds a new analysis of ape skulls by UCL ...

When it comes to inclusion, artificial intelligence doesn’t have the best track record. As vast algorithms trained on troves of data scraped from the internet, AI models are inherently predisposed to ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery at Karahantepe has shattered expectations about Neolithic symbolic expression, as researchers uncovered the first T-shaped pillar ever found with a distinctly ...

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