This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

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Operational technology (OT) has long been the backbone of critical infrastructure, spanning utilities, manufacturing plants and military systems. Historically, these environments were isolated, ...

What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter ...

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it ...

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.

As an executive at a leading talent intelligence platform, I've had the privilege of witnessing firsthand the profound transformation HR technology has undergone over the years. Initially, the focus ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...

Throughout most of human history, evolution progressed slowly. Small genetic changes took thousands of years to permeate populations. Natural selection was intentional, reactive, and gradual. However, ...