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Evidence Points to Human Butchery of Giant Armadillo Relatives in Argentina 21,000 Years Ago
Jul 18, 2024 (SPX)
The timing of early human settlement in South America is a heavily debated topic, significant for understanding early human migration across the Americas and th...
UN says world population to peak at 10.3 billion in the 2080s
Jul 18, 2024 (AFP)
The current population of 8.2 billion people will rise to that maximum over the next 60 years, then dip to 10.2 billion by the end of the century, says a report...
First suicide pod use 'soon' in Switzerland: campaigners
Jul 17, 2024 (AFP)
The space-age looking Sarco capsule, first unveiled in 2019, replaces the oxygen inside it with nitrogen, causing death by hypoxia. It would cost $20 to use. Th...
Chinese kindergartens pivot to senior care as population ages
Jul 12, 2024 (AFP)
Hundreds of millions of Chinese are set to enter old age in the coming decades while the country's chronically low birth rate leaves ever fewer people to replac...
Lucy while barely a metre tall still towers over our understanding of human origins
Jul 01, 2024 (SPX)
Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, an extinct hominin - a group that includes humans and our fossil relatives. Australopithecus afaren...
Just thinking about a location activates mental maps in the brain
Jun 13, 2024 (SPX)
New research from MIT has found that such mental maps also are created and activated when you merely think about sequences of experiences, in the absence of any...
Tiny species of Great Ape lived in Germany 11M years ago
Jun 10, 2024 (SPX)
The Hammerschmiede fossil site in Bavaria, Germany, is best known for remains of the ancient great ape Danuvius dating to the late Miocene Epoch, 11.6 million y...
JK Rowling says regrets not speaking out sooner on trans issues
May 29, 2024 (AFP)
Rowling, 58, has been embroiled in controversy and incurred the wrath of activists and "Harry Potter" film stars in recent years over her stance that biological...
Record low level of Hong Kong's young adults want children: survey
May 24, 2024 (AFP)
The Chinese finance hub has one of Asia's lowest fertility rates, combined with an ageing population, and last year recorded just 33,200 births in a city of 7.5...
Can we rid artificial intelligence of bias?
May 19, 2024 (AFP)
The question for some is extremely urgent. In this ChatGPT era, AI will generate more and more decisions for health care providers, bank lenders or lawyers, usi...
Amazonian chief at UN to combat traditional knowledge piracy
May 14, 2024 (AFP)
However, discussions towards concluding the agreement are progressing "very slowly", Chief Ninawa told AFP on the sidelines of the treaty talks at the headquart...
In US national parks, a historical wound begins to heal
May 13, 2024 (AFP)
As a member of the Tohono O'odham nation, he didn't want to talk too much about his new job at Saguaro National Park in Arizona. "I was afraid of what my people...
Early infant vision shaped by high-contrast visual inputs
May 11, 2024 (SPX)
"The starting assumption for everybody who thinks about the role of experience in visual development has always been that at the scale of everyday experience, v...
A fragment of human brain, mapped
May 10, 2024 (SPX)
The project, led by Jeff Lichtman, Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the new dean of science at Harvard, was carried out in coll...
AI Ethics in the Digital Afterlife: Safeguards Needed to Avoid Unwanted AI Hauntings
May 10, 2024 (SPX)
These digital interactions, while offering a form of comfort, could also lead to instances of psychological distress by creating a continuous presence that migh...
Chimps learn and improve tool-using skills even as adults
May 08, 2024 (SPX)
Humans have the capacity to continue learning throughout our entire lifespan. It has been hypothesized that this ability is responsible for the extraordinary fl...
A world with fewer children? Addressing the despair behind declining fertility
May 06, 2024 (SPX)
In a paper published in Nature Mental Health, University of Pennsylvania neuroscientists Michael Platt and Peter Sterling posit that the underlying mechanism of...
Exploring the Socioeconomic Drivers Behind Plummeting Fertility Rates
May 06, 2024 (SPX)
Michael Platt explains, "Since 1973, U.S. fertility rates have been below replacement levels. This isn't just a statistic; it's a signal of potential population...
Artist graffitis famous painting by French master
May 06, 2024 (AFP)
"The Origin of the World", a nude painted from 1866, was protected by a "glass pane" and the police were on site to assess the damage, the Centre Pompidou in th...
ADL warns of global surge in anti-Semitism
May 05, 2024 (AFP)
The annual report from the ADL, the leading Jewish advocacy group, said anti-Semitic incidents had been increasing before the war erupted in October, but that t...
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