A new book offers an unsettling account of human exceptionalism and shows that the unique ways we gamble with risks and move out of our comfort zones may yet be our downfall.

Another of the behaviors that seem rude but are actually signs of a highly intelligent person include the tendency to correct ...

There’s nothing like getting caught in a giggle loop, where the desire to laugh builds until it bursts out at a disastrous moment. Only then do we often realize that laughter is a rather strange ...

Brain abnormalities may be a nonspecific antecedent for sexual homicide offending. Studies suggest elevated prevalence of ...

New research adds evidence that learning a successful strategy for approaching a task doesn't prevent further exploration, even if it reduces performance.

Researchers at HSE University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have identified 15 key motives that ...

What are the latest Once Human codes? There are times in all of our gaming lives when we need a little bit of help. Call it a handout, call it a freebie, call it whatever you like, but receiving a ...

We investigated associations between characteristics of obesity, eating behavior and regulatory brain function focusing on nonlinear relationships. Forty-three hungry female volunteers (BMI: ...

The study also provides the clearest evidence to date that apes can intuit another’s ignorance, an ability thought to be uniquely human.

"A world in which human wages crash from AI — logically ... ensuring that "citizens will be on their best behavior." When asked in an interview about AI killing creative jobs, OpenAI's former ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species such as the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis and the powerfully built Homo naledi. A pinkie ...

“If you think about what we might expect humans to accomplish in an area like biology in 100 years, I think a doubling of the human lifespan is not at all crazy,” he said yesterday (Jan ...