Last year, 21 humanoid robots squared up against each other in the World Humanoid Robot Games’ half marathon race in Beijing in an unintentionally hilarious debauchery of broken limbs, face plants — ...

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Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins. By Franz Lidz Researchers on Wednesday ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an international research team. The famous “Little Foot” skeleton from South Africa has ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...

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What Makes Us Human? is a biweekly column from Emi Sakamoto ’28. Sakamoto investigates the question to better understand human-centered meaning in the midst of a rapidly evolving artificial landscape.

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...

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Twenty years ago, something happened when Pablo Peña sat in Prof. Gary Becker’s doctoral-level course at the University of Chicago. As the economist lectured on human capital theory, a concept he’d ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...