MANILA, Philippines — Employees and former heads of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) have shared conflicting testimonies about the existence of the “tara” system. At the House Quad Committee’s ...

Your news feature ‘How close is AI to human-level intelligence?’ (Nature 636, 22–25; 2024) describes three abilities that artificial-intelligence tools called large language models (LLMs ...

The SE01 humanoid robot, which previously made headlines for achieving one of the most human-like gaits, has again captured global attention. Chinese robotics firm EngineAI has posted a new video ...

Seven years and seven months ago, Google changed the world with the Transformer architecture, which lies at the heart of generative AI applications like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Now Google has unveiled ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead, they are ...

The former director of a New Jersey sports complex that hosts programs for children, including a cheerleading camp, was charged with sexually assaulting a teen boy multiple times over three months, ...

A New Jersey businesswoman repeatedly sexually abused an underage boy and sent him nude images of herself over a three-month period, according to authorities. Tara Carr, 46, of Woodstown, is ...

A molar in Laos, a jawbone on the Tibetan Plateau, the fragment of a pinkie in Siberia.Our evolutionary history is now being rewritten by tiny discoveries illuminated by fast-advancing science ...

This loved-up ‘happening’ on a winter day in San Francisco helped the counterculture grab national attention Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent Later in 1967, flower children of all ages ...

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