In the traditional view, affordances exist as options users perceive and act upon within their environment. However, in the age of genAI, affordances have become relational folds, dynamic exchanges in ...

Using single-cell RNA sequencing and genetic screening, the researchers identified key surface proteins that mediate ...

The role of megafaunal exploitation in early human evolution remains debated. Occasional use of large carcasses by early hominins has been considered by some as opportunistic, possibly a fallback ...

The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is using artificial intelligence to help understand sperm whale communications.

Multimodal applications combining electroencephalogram (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) are widely used in cognitive ...

When cars were weird, they were clever. From Aztek coolers to hose-out floors, here are the so-called 'bad' ideas that ...

This Halloween, we revisit Rhidian Davis’s reckoning with the gothic’s many monstrous manifestations, from silent film to Hammer horror to Twilight. From our November 2013 issue.

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

Fossils from Germany’s Miocene era reveal Danuvius guggenmosi, an ape that walked upright 12 million years ago. With long ...

Humans developed large brains and flatter faces at an exceptionally quick rate compared to other apes, according to new research from UCL scientists. The study suggests that these rapid changes may ...

From The Andromeda Strain to Jurassic Park, these are the most exhilarating novels written by the master of the ...