Prof Claire Spottiswoode joins other prominent UCT-based researchers as well as renowned greats from around the world who’ve ...

All companies want to provide their customers with richer and more engaging experiences. The challenge is how to scale the experiences in a way that does not depersonalize or commodify them. Enter ...

Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times more than baby chimpanzees.

Humanity’s pursuit of longer life is moving from fiction to something far more real. At the heart of this shift is a bold idea called “Longevity Escape Velocity” — a vision that’s ...

Decades of overfishing have altered the genetic makeup of Baltic cod, shrinking their size and threatening their recovery.

World Chain, a human-centric blockchain linked to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has launched Priority Blockspace for Humans, a new tool to prioritize real humans over bots.

While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a new study suggests we might be vastly underrepresenting rural areas.

Second was the realization that obviously humans are superior to birds in certain kinds of intelligence, but not all. Our symbolic-linguistic intelligence is top shelf, for example.

Science News: A new study reveals that ancient Homo sapiens possessed a unique adaptability, thriving in diverse and challenging environments across Africa before t ...