Humans could learn from chimpanzees and bonobos, who turn to group members for physical comfort during tense moments.

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Scientists recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls for the first time. Refined, the method could help link prehistoric ...

A small study suggests emotional fit, not perfect accuracy, may make chatbot versions of dead loved ones feel real.

A new generation of therapies aims to intervene at a recently discovered gap between the disease’s molecular march and its ...

In Spring 2025, we — Lilly Fang, Lester Mackey and our two children — noticed that something odd was happening to our family.

In 2021, local journalists reported that the University of Pennsylvania had been keeping human remains from the ...

Two “superpuff” planets orbiting a sunlike star over 1,000 light-years from Earth are as big as Jupiter and as dense as ...

The Euclid space telescope discovery could help researchers understand how black holes grew so massive so quickly in the ...

Astronomers found a helium atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet — a good sign for the search for life outside the solar system ...

In sci-fi, AI can navigate the unknowns and — ideally — keep human travelers safe. But it’s not intelligent enough to do that ...