The seven deadly sins were not just moral transgressions. They were survival tools with an evolutionary basis and advantage. A new book explains how they shape our lives today ...

Yet in the tech sector the humanoid robot is the cultural handmaiden to another holy grail: artificial general intelligence.

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There’s nothing like getting caught in a giggle loop, where the desire to laugh builds until it bursts out at a disastrous moment. Only then do we often realize that laughter is a rather strange ...

Faculty at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford were busy during the fall semester publishing and presenting research at conferences in the areas of criminal justice, engineering, chemistry ...

That Western civilisation is at a critical juncture is undeniable. This has been warned about for quite some time now. One of ...

Nematodes have oily surfaces that impact survival and interactions, offering insights into evolution and parasite control. A ...

Scientists employ deep learning to analyze and compare gene regulation across various cell types in human and chicken brains.

Blue Origin is targeting next Tuesday (Feb. 25) for its 10th space tourism mission, which will send six people to the final frontier. If all goes according to plan, Blue Origin 's suborbital New ...

“Once a population has achieved this evolvability, it seems like it didn’t get erased by future evolution,” Zaman said. This ...

A new book offers an unsettling account of human exceptionalism and shows that the unique ways we gamble with risks and move ...

This individual tendency to greed is largely hard-wired within our psyches. What is the relationship between wanting more and ...