This is the third generation of Honda’s HR-V SUV, which started out back in 1998 as a super cool, three-door soft-roader for the surfing crowd, went quiet for seven years then came back as a ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead, they are ...

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A molar in Laos, a jawbone on the Tibetan Plateau, the fragment of a pinkie in Siberia.Our evolutionary history is now being rewritten by tiny discoveries illuminated by fast-advancing science ...

This loved-up ‘happening’ on a winter day in San Francisco helped the counterculture grab national attention Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent Later in 1967, flower children of all ages ...

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The concept of an office is actually pretty new. If you look across history, working from home has almost always been the norm. I think remote work is, despite its novelty, part of a broader ...

Human brains take in sensory data at more than 1 billion bits per second, but only process that information at a measly 10 bits per second, new research has found. When you purchase through links ...

In a few decades, gene-editing technologies could reduce the likelihood of common human diseases. Societies must use this time to prepare for their arrival. Read the paper: Heritable polygenic ...

Studies have shown that people dislike attempts to make AI convincingly human. But emphasizing the essential role of humans in AI tools can help reduce resistance to adoption. Making your AI tools ...

The scientific community believe a small species of human known as homo floresiensis once lived on the island of Flores, Indonesia, around 50,000 years ago. But one professor thinks the apelike ...