One of the most prominent skeptics is robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks, a co-founder of Roomba vacuum maker iRobot who wrote in ...

The $700 million humanoid robot order that just landed in China is not a science‑fiction curiosity, it is a signal that ...

Are you ready for the arrival of humanoid robots? - We are entering the era of Mechanical ai ‘beings’, says Chris Stokel-Walker, and all eyes are on ...

Researchers are looking for answers behind the mystery of Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest known primate that ever lived.

Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.

Around 56 million years ago, Earth suddenly got much hotter. Over about 5,000 years, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere drastically increased and global temperatures shot up by some 6°C. As we ...

An Australian fossil reveals the first lamniform shark, measuring 20 feet long and living 15 million years earlier than believed.

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...