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A mega-study of 117 mammal species reveals that limiting reproduction increases life expectancy by up to 10 percent.

A UNSW-led study found overall invasive cancer rates in Australian women were no higher after fertility treatments including IVF. Some specific cancers were slightly more common, while others were ...

In "The Descent of Man," he described the appendix as a vestige: a leftover from plant-eating ancestors with larger digestive organs. For more than a century, that interpretation shaped both textbook ...

The question many mark: Will AI replace us, or more accurately, will some human beings replace others with AI? The corollary: What, if anything, makes humans irreplaceable? As artificial intelligence ...

AI’s concealed labor has repeatedly led us to overestimate the technology. Humanoid robots are entering a similar phase. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.

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In Geneva on 9 February, the United Nations deputy human rights chief gave an alarming update on the dramatic impact of the financial crisis on the UN’s ability to promote and protect human rights ...

In my last post 1 I asked what happens if API tokens (Universal Token Standard, or UTS) become a universal monetary standard — a computational lingua franca that makes AI labor legible, tradeable, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last month marked 53 years since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade. Although the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ...

As commercial spaceflight draws ever closer and time spent in space continues to extend, the question of reproductive health beyond the bounds of planet Earth is no longer theoretical but now ...

The Chicago area isn't dealing with the remnants of a massive snowfall, but rather a much different type of winter weather: extreme cold. While accumulating snow is possible in the coming days, Friday ...