As we age, the human brain rewires itself. The process happens in distinct phases, or “epochs,” according to new research, as the structure of our neural networks changes and our brains reconfigure ...

The person was an older adult with underlying health conditions, officials said. The first human to have ever been infected with the H5N5 strain of bird flu has died, Washington state health officials ...

One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010, a groundbreaking genetic analysis revealed that east Asia was once home to a previously unknown group of enigmatic ...

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on record? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Current AI technology has hit a wall that prevents it from reaching artificial general intelligence. The next design leap involves adding a type of complexity that attempts to mimic the way the human ...

Twenty years ago, something happened when Pablo Peña sat in Prof. Gary Becker’s doctoral-level course at the University of Chicago. As the economist lectured on human capital theory, a concept he’d ...

According to three Stanford scientists, lack of human biological material is a “major bottleneck to progress” for medical research. A steadily growing idea is one known as “bodyoids”—biological ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. It is a common mantra in cybersecurity that humans are the weakest ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall, cadaver ...

This human evolution quiz will test your knowledge of our species, including when and how we evolved. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The collision of AI advancement and post-pandemic work policies has created an urgent inflection point for how we build and maintain workplace connections. As major companies wrestle with ...