I tested a $125,000 humanoid robot. It couldn't read my emotions, but its jokes and sense of humor made it feel surprisingly human.

Supergirl,” starring Milly Alcock, is only the latest dud of a superhero movie with a woman in the lead. They deserve better.

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A new protein analysis of Homo naledi skeletons reveals a curious twist—none of them seem to have Y chromosomes.

In the early 1930s, a teenage girl of Mexican heritage was exploring a long-abandoned mine tunnel in the Copper Canyon region of Chihuahua, Mexico. Buried beneath the dirt floor in a shallow, ...

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People who believe they've been abducted by aliens have always resided at the farthest fringes of science, and the recent claim by a UFO cult known as the Raelians that they had cloned a human being ...

When wildfires blazed through Los Angeles last year, displacing tens of thousands of people, the local National Council of Jewish Women affiliate was well positioned to help. The national nonprofit’s ...

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This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. In the prehistoric opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the ...

The so-called 'alien mummies' discovered in Peru, supposedly near the Nazca lines, have been dismissed as a hoax by skeptics and most of the scientific community, with claims that a definitive study ...

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2 featured the MonsterVerse’s biggest stars – King Kong and Godzilla – along with a blend of complicated family drama and mad science. But the real reason to watch ...