On Hacking Humans, Dave Bittner, Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of N2K's daily space podcast, T-Minus), are once again sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, ...

SINGAPORE – The bird, barely the size of a human palm, struggled in the mesh net hanging between two wooden poles on Pulau Ubin, the biodiversity haven located off Singapore’s eastern coast.

The idea of life continuing on Earth without humans has a way of catching our attention. Our species has spread across land and sea, altering the planet in countless ways. Still, Earth’s history shows ...

A new human species, Homo juluensis, has been proposed based on fossils from eastern Asia, dating back 300,000 to 50,000 years ago, possibly including the Denisovans. This research uses a novel method ...

But scientists have long assumed that bacteria can’t survive in the human brain. The powerful blood-brain barrier, the thinking goes, keeps the organ mostly free from outside invaders.

Our ancient primate ancestors gave birth to twins. Modern humans overwhelmingly birth just a single child — a rather large child with an even larger head. Human brain and body size is certainly ...

As one of the laureates put it, AI's potential for accelerating scientific discovery makes it "one of the most transformative technologies in human history". But what will this transformation ...

In contrast, humans do not simply accumulate knowledge, but constantly reinvent and expand its boundaries. Morgan explains that human openness allows us to visualize and execute complex sequences ...

Ants and humans competed in navigating a maze with a large load. While humans outperformed individually, ant groups excelled collectively, showing strategic coordination and persistence. The study ...

Let’s face it: toenails aren’t exactly the stars of the human body. They’re kind of like the background dancers in a music video—rarely in the spotlight, but you’d miss them if they ...

Viewed from the C-suite, there is a lot to like. Human robots do not get sick, require pensions or join unions. Health and safety departments need not fret about how much stooping and carrying ...