At a very special library in Copenhagen, Denmark, the "books" being checked out are actual human beings, who offer 30-minute conversations on a wealth of subjects – allowing "readers" a better ...

Yu Leqian, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Zoology and head of the project, says that the ...

Nature can be surprisingly brutal. Some predators employ hunting methods so unsettling they rival human stories of our most ...

The human hand is an evolutionary marvel. While other primates rely on their hands for locomotion and basic grasping, ours ...

Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

There is a movement that originated in Denmark, where instead of borrowing a book to read a story, you borrow a person instead. The idea, established in 2000, is to "publish people as open books" so ...

If humans prefer the writing of AI to that of humans, will they stop writing? If AI does most of our writing, will we stop thinking and go into cognitive decline?

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 years ago. Columnist Michael Marshall explores how slings, ostrich eggs and woo ...

The latest discoveries by an international research team, which includes Academy Research Fellow Ferhat Kaya from the ...