Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...

Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self.

Researchers found that cold is detected differently in the skin than in internal organs. This split system helps explain why ...

At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive lining ...

Melondy Phillips Staff Writer In an age of climate-controlled homes, offices and even vehicles, many humans have become ...

Before long-duration spaceflight became reality, NASA sent a lifelike human torso filled with organs and sensors into orbit to uncover the true dangers of cosmic radiation. This is the hidden story of ...

Typically, bone marrow research relies heavily on animal models and oversimplified cell cultures in the laboratory. Now, researchers from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and ...

AI models may be a bit like humans, after all. A new study from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue University shows that large language models fed a diet of popular but ...

A human head and torso were found in a trash bag outside a Brooklyn home early Friday morning, police and sources said. The body parts were left lying on a sidewalk near 557 E. 21st St. in Flatbush ...

When the GenAI hype was just picking up steam, I wrote about the danger of drowning in LLM-produced blah if we failed to utilize the expertise of human linguists. It gives me no pleasure to say I was ...

An apparent human torso that investigators believe belonged to a woman was taken out with the trash in Queens – where sanitation workers found it discarded in a garbage bag early Monday, cops and ...

Recently, a woman slowed down a line at the post office, waving her phone at the clerk. ChatGPT told her there’s a “price match promise” on the USPS website. No such promise exists. But she trusted ...