About 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, ...

Anxiety-driven physical sensations can mimic more serious medical conditions but we can learn to differentiate between true ...

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said that his AI startup is racing to secure the computing power needed to meet demand for its generative AI chatbot Claude. “The surge in demand ...

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 hand has 25 degrees of freedom, they claim. But while some innovators have sought to recreate human hands and arms in machine form, others have opted for very different approaches to dexterity.

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 ...

Gavin Newsom’s administration plotted an elaborate rescue mission—for a supposed endangered form of trout. “One of our biggest concerns,” a state Department of Fish and Wildlife manager ...

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 ...

But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...

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 ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared ... “That flowstone took thousands of years to form, but the sediment flooded in here in ...