The pro and anti sides have generally coalesced around two different arguments: one saying AI will leach humanity out of ...

Researchers analyzing ancient pottery from Northern Mesopotamia have identified what may be the world's earliest botanical ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

The practice of substituting humans with primates reaches back into art history.

Researchers investigate hundreds of motifs made by Halafians and determine that they exhibited mathematical themes.

Karla Ortiz, an illustrator, painter and concept artist, described the moment she witnessed A.I. churning out art in her style. “It felt like a gut punch,” she said. “They were using my reputation, ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

In the latest twist in human evolution, scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative. Dated to around 3.4 million years ago, ...

According to Chat GPT, “Probably not – at least not anymore.” It seems not everyone agrees. After an art gallery in Coeur d’Alene debuted an AI-generated exhibit, four artists protested on a bench ...

In 2009, Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team were combing the desert landscape of Burtele, a paleontological site in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, when Stephanie Melillo found something remarkable: an ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had trouble believing that modern humans from the Upper Paleolithic (between 45,000 ...