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Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious mix of features Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Scientists used ...

(Image Credit: Jason L. Heaton) A fossil leopard lower jawbone next to a skull fragment of a juvenile Paranthropus robustus. Note the two punctures in the skull, which match the spacing of the tips of ...

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its ...

Google's former HR chief wrote that he'd "never seen a large scale, systematic approach like this." While such lists aren't illegal, they are unusual, other employment and HR experts told BI.

Possible foundations of human intelligence observed for the first time Date: March 6, 2025 Source: IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) Summary: A study has demonstrated how neurons ...

Archaeologists have discovered a collection of prehistoric animal bones in Tanzania that suggests early humans figured out how to transfer tool-making techniques “from stone to bone” 1.5 ...

Bone artifacts discovered in Tanzania push back the earliest known date of bone tool technology by over a million years. In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought ...

Scientists found that rapidly evolving DNA regions, known as human accelerated regions (HARs), help human neurons form complex networks, contributing to higher brain function but possibly increasing ...