In his first speech as prime minister in waiting, Andy Burnham promised he would achieve “good growth in every postcode” and spearhead the “biggest rebalancing of power” in political history. Keir ...

The idea that an advanced civilization existed on Earth long before humans is fascinating, but scientists aren't convinced. Experts have explored this possibility by asking what traces a technological ...

As humans, it’s important to remember that some of our oldest primate ancestors were apelike creatures. Besides our much larger brains and visibly obvious differences, such as facial features, one ...

Earlier this week, I shared the experience of discovering a bullet hole in the window of my downtown office at the Akron Beacon Journal. Though Akron police said the bullet strike was most likely ...

While most libraries prefer that readers use their quiet voices, we just visited a library in Copenhagen where talking is actually encouraged. Ronni Abergel founded The Human Library (or ...

Humans are strange creatures. We are unarmored, largely hairless and precariously perched atop two legs. Bizarrely vulnerable and - in an evolutionary sense seemingly malformed - we have nonetheless ...

If you’re a lefty and have ever felt excluded from the right-handed club as you write a letter, throw a ball, or wield a hammer, you’re not imagining it. About 90 percent of people worldwide favor ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Are humans inherently selfish? We’ve covered research on this very show that says otherwise. But looking at the realities ...

Humans are overwhelmingly right-handed, but scientists have long struggled to explain why no other primate species shows anything close to the same pattern. Credit: Shutterstock Scientists say the ...

Like every other living thing on Earth - past, present, and indeed future - we’re products of evolution. This might be hard for some to believe, but our evolutionary history has been dictated by the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Why do we kiss? The answer involves ancient apes, immune ...

The idea that machines would be cheaper and more efficient than humans has long shaped expectations about automation. That assumption is starting to break down. Training a large model to handle ...