One figure widely quoted by pest control companies: There are 1,000 pounds of termites for every human on Earth. If you like big numbers, the 2018 report is delicious reading. Recently ...

Elija Perrier receives funding from the Australian government. A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general intelligence”.

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Human minibrains in little vials surprised scientists by surviving a stint in low-Earth orbit. US researchers sent lab-grown blobs of human neural tissue known as organoids for a short holiday on the ...

Heaven, actually. On his website, Jamie describes this ham as an ‘absolute winner’, and we couldn’t agree more. You see, the secret to his delicious ham is actually Paddington’s favourite ...

From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’t decompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human biology It can sometimes feel like health ...

Musk is so bothered by this, in fact, that he has made it one of his long-term goals to create an interface that allows the human brain to communicate directly with a computer, unencumbered by the ...

When modern humans arrived in New Guinea roughly 50,000 years ago, they met and mixed with the Denisovans, a now-extinct group of human ancestors who originated in Asia. But after that initial ...

The Zlatý kůň site in Czechia holds a critical piece of this puzzle. Archaeologists discovered a skull there, estimated to be 45,000 years old, and belonging to an early modern human. Unfortunately, ...

Jamie Lee Curtis better bust out the doilies and contempo casual trench coats — it seems she’s headed to “Murder, She Wrote.” Variety has confirmed that Oscar winner Curtis is in early ...

It may not be conventional, but Jamie Lee Curtis‘ career-defining onscreen relationship will always be the one between the actor and a serial killer with a penchant for a boiler suit and William ...