The data showed that a dog with a similar weight to a wolf had a brain volume about three-quarters the size of the wolf’s.

In his book "One Hand Clapping," Nikolay Kukushkin explores explanations for how consciousness evolved, and ultimately, what ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

However, it anticipated what could be the next revolution in medicine the idea that ever-smaller and more sophisticated sensors are about to enter our bodies, connecting human beings to the ...

In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, a spacecraft and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of an ...

Artificial intelligence systems that are designed with a biologically inspired architecture can simulate human brain activity ...

"One Hand Clapping" draws from neuroscience, evolution, philosophy and a rich tapestry of cultural references to examine how ...

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and bigger brains. Via a process called encephalization, human brains evolved ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest ...

Reading brain activity with advanced technologies is not a new concept. However, most techniques have focused on identifying single words associated with an object or action a person is seeing or ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is obsessed with codifying your biology. First it was scanning your eyeballs — and now it’s scanning your thoughts. The insight is based on a new hiring decision by Altman. He’s ...

Forward-looking: A computing device modeled after the human brain – and small enough to fit under a desk – was unveiled in Hengqin, marking a potential breakthrough in supercomputer design. The ...