Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...

Yes, we might think we’re invincible and capable of doing everything on our own, like John Wayne or James Bond; that is, until we suffer a serious injury or illness, or reach old age. That’s when we ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

Very few people live beyond a century. So, if no one had babies anymore, there would probably be no humans left on Earth within 100 years. But first, the population would shrink as older folks died ...

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene ...

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio urgently warns against rapid AI development, citing risks like deception, goal misalignment, and ...