Researchers have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative condition. The treatment, which uses ...
Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...
Prof Geoffrey Hinton says the technology is developing faster than he expected and needs government regulation Artificial intelligence could wipe out the human race within the next decade ...
By Dennis Overbye Call us Homo slobbus. It took roughly four billion ... They synthesized data from a vast number of scientific studies, from large global measurements to rough guesstimates.
While one would be hard-pressed to find virtually any similarities between ants and humans, the two species seem to share an unusual ability despite their seemingly unbridgeable differences—they ...
A team studying the group behavior of ants has found that, in the right circumstances, ants can outsmart humans in collective ... and cognitive traits across species and group sizes." ...