For generations, humans have congratulated themselves on being the planet’s most advanced species. We point to our cities, our technologies, our sciences, and our global reach as proof of superior ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Ten years ago, I would have turned my nose up at the idea that we already understood how to get machines to think. In the 2010s, my team at Google Research was working on a wide variety of ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Recent discoveries have suggested that tool-making, an indicator of intelligence, was practiced by pre-human species millions of years prior to the evolution of Homo sapiens. This revelation has the ...

A study led by Dr. Li Chuanyun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has revealed how recently evolved human-specific genes—critical for ...

NEW YORK (February 10, 2026)—Evolve: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Technologies to Enable Superhuman Capabilities by Sharon Daniels is now available on Amazon and at major ...

Crows can recognize geometric patterns, suggesting that humans aren't unique in understanding shape structure.

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...

For generations, our education system has been built on a simple formula: Learn the rules, master the mechanics, memorize the facts. Go to school, get the information, then go out and apply it in the ...