One of the primary points emerging from the recent Newsweek AI Impact Summit was that AI adoption strategies should focus on the value that could be delivered, more than the efficiency that could be ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

It is still not fully understood how, despite having the same set of genes, cells turn into neurons, bones, skin, heart, or roughly 200 other kinds of cells, and then exhibit stable cellular behavior ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Ph.D. candidate Yuchen Lian (LIACS) wants to understand why human languages look the way they do—and find inspiration to ...

A portrait of Fillia Makedon, a Distinguished Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington. Fillia Makedon, a Distinguished Professor in the ...

INDIANAPOLIS — As a Purdue University master’s degree student in electrical and computer engineering in West Lafayette, Karen D’Souza was impressed by the depth and breadth of the research offered ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. “Where are all the genetic cures?” asks Denis Noble, a ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...