humans
27/04/2017 - 13:16
Now, something new has occurred that, again, quietly changed the world forever. Like a whispered word in a foreign language, you may have... →
18/03/2017 - 13:13
Known as the Singularity, the event is oft discussed by scientists, futurists, technology stalwarts and others as a time when artificial... →
26/11/2016 - 13:19
If you are meeting some friends for lunch, your prospective memory reminds you to turn up on the right day, but you can also picture... →
08/10/2016 - 18:33
The plot line of this story, however, began to lose credibility starting with the 2008 global financial crisis. People who, in the nineteen... →
14/08/2016 - 13:19
Darwin was a diligent thinker. He agonised over any example he came across of organisms behaving in a way that seemed to run counter to his... →
01/07/2016 - 18:39
Sure, humans and dolphins aren’t as disparate as, say, humans and octopus; our last shared ancestor with the latter crawled the Earth about... →
06/03/2016 - 15:24
The journey to love as we know it today began with sex, which was one of the first things life on Earth figured out how to do. Sex began as... →
25/01/2016 - 17:59
An evolutionary biologist trained at Oxford who also holds a doctorate in political science, Johnson believes that the need to find a more-... →
04/12/2014 - 13:20
Google is making a push into “quantum computing” and has established an ethics committee to monitor the work of DeepMind, the artificial... →
12/09/2014 - 15:53
And as brain sizes increases, organisms require more energy and longer rearing time to reach their full potential. Based on these ideas,... →
16/02/2012 - 16:10
Because the hormone is present in both mice and humans, Spiegelman speculates that it may have served as an evolutionary defense against... →