Artificial intelligence (AI) is already in a position to decide to act, but the world dare not allow the human being to be ...

Conceived in response to the operational demands of professional football, the complex is organized to ensure functional proximity between programs, clear circulation, and a direct relationship with ...

AI systems can route messages, update records, make decisions, and trigger entire workflows across multiple apps without you touching anything. But as AI shifts more and more from being an assistive ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

How monogamous are humans, really? It’s an age-old question subject to significant debate. Now a University of Cambridge professor has an answer: somewhere between the Eurasian beaver and a meerkat.

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both ...

We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you can't see, such as what foods different people are able to digest. When ...

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Welcome to The Workup, a First Opinion column from Vishal Khetpal. In 1912, on the banks of the Seine in Paris, Lawrence Sperry, an aviation pioneer, debuted his invention of the autopilot, as he and ...