A new book offers an unsettling account of human exceptionalism and shows that the unique ways we gamble with risks and move out of our comfort zones may yet be our downfall.

A rare and deliberate signal between a mother chimpanzee and her daughter raises new questions about ape communication, ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have examined how social models ...

In Greek mythology, a chimera is a grotesque hybrid. But chimeras are not just tales. Here's how some scientists have been ...

Mysterious Footprints Found in a Cave Reveal They Belonged to a Relative of Humans Who Walked Like a Bear We are aware of how ...

While early language models could only process text, contemporary large language models now perform highly diverse tasks on different types of data. For instance, LLMs can understand many languages, ...

In 1989, political scientist Francis Fukuyama predicted we were approaching the end of history. He meant that similar liberal ...

World Bonobo Day highlights the urgent need to protect bonobos from habitat destruction, poaching, and deforestation.

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University has investigated how similar ...

Three studies of the brain regions responsible for processing sensory information show that their neurons are and communicate ...

This time, we’re gonna win, damnit!” proclaims a grinning Wes Ball, director of last summer’s Kingdom of the Planet of the ...

Consciousness is a private affair. We can only infer that others have conscious experiences like we do, for essentially three ...