W e modern humans love a long hot soak but linger too long and something a bit gross happens: the skin on your hands wrinkles ...

Jae C. Hong / Alamy The human impact of hydroclimate whiplash Rapid transitions between extreme wet and dry conditions have significant and wide-ranging impacts on people, a focus of my academic ...

Los Angeles is burning, and accelerating hydroclimate whiplash is the key climate connection. After years of severe drought, ...

Humans are social creatures too, even if some of us enjoy solitude. Ants and humans are also the only creatures in nature that consistently cooperate while transporting large loads that greatly ...

My guess is combined I/O bit rate > 1Mbs and augmented humans >1M by 2030.” This statement is a vision for a future where the boundary between humans and machines dissolves at a scale that could ...

Teleoperated robots at scale, even if years away, could mean a seismic shift in how we think about labor and automation. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on ...

October to April is normally considered to be the wet season in California ... Extreme swings in temperature can also create more heat-related illnesses, as human bodies struggle to adapt quickly. It ...

"In 1969, we landed humans on the moon; on Christmas Eve in 2024, we are going to embrace a star," Nour Raouafi, project scientist of the Parker Solar Probe mission, told Space.com. On Aug. 12 ...

Humans aren't alone when it comes to yawning — all vertebrates do it too, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. But why? The "evolutionarily ancient" act of yawning likely ...

Ancient human relatives ran on two legs, like modern humans, but at a much slower pace, suggest 3D computer simulations of Australopithecus afarensis 1 — a small hominin that lived more than ...

One day in the summer of 1924, an anthropologist named Raymond Dart made an incredible discovery — and drew a conclusion from it about human nature that would mislead us for a century.

A team studying the group behavior of ants has found that, in the right circumstances, ants can outsmart humans in collective problem-solving tasks. Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of ...