Artificial intelligence is getting better at mimicking human language, solving problems, and even passing exams. But according to new research, it still can't replicate one of the most fundamental ...

They can take on tasks that challenge humans and have the potential to play an important role in industry, services or ...

For decades, scientists have been studying the cognition of great apes to understand how our own complex cognitive abilities ...

In the third edition of this study, the authors found that people are adopting generative AI for an ever-widening range of uses. Trends from one year to the next should be understood as shifts in ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every corner of the world, and can thrive in deserts, tropical rainforests and even ...

Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the Moon and worships gods? For decades, many scholars have argued that the difference stems ...

The human lie isn’t a flaw so much as a feature, one that evolution spent hundreds of millions of years perfecting.

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except ...

Two chimpanzees meeting with each other apparently have a discussion using hand gestures, one of the human-like characteristics of other mammals. (Getty Images) Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, ...