The so-called 'Godfather of AI' has warned that artificial intelligence is an "alien technology" that could replace humans.

Geoffrey Hinton, a University Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of Toronto, has been named one of seven recipients of the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. The annual ...

Some of our species’ earliest ancestors may have spent a lot more time eating salad than steak. Diet has been a crucial component of human evolution, says Tina Lüdecke, a geochemist at the Max ...

However, the now icy continent might have been just that for the early ancestors of today’s living waterbirds–especially after an asteroid slammed into the Earth. A newly described fossil ...

New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed a mix of ape-like and human-like traits, consumed very little or no meat ...

Three million years ago, our ancestors were vegetarian. ScienceDaily . Retrieved February 9, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250117112232.htm ...

Jan 16 (Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have ...

“That is a moment that I will take with me to my grave,” says Tamara Lanier, describing the first time she saw the image of her ancestor, an enslaved man known by his descendants as Papa Rent ...

But thanks to a skull that was hidden in northeastern China for over 80 years, we can now see what our Denisovan ancestors really looked like. The skull was found by a worker in Harbin ...

Education: Harvard University, B.A. in Anthropology and Afro-American Studies; Cambridge University, Trinity College, M.Phil in Social Anthropology Geoffrey A. Fowler is The Washington Post’s ...