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

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

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

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

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

Stablecoin giant Tether has joined a €70 million ($81.6 million) funding round for Italy-based Generative Bionics, a humanoid-robotics startup developing industrial robots built using research from ...

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 ...

A University of Cambridge-led team has analyzed giant anaconda fossils from South America to deduce that these tropical snakes reached their maximum size 12.4 million years ago and have remained ...

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Vera Korasidis receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Julian Rogger receives funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation. University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding ...

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun believes that artificial intelligence will reshape traditional industries over the next five years and says humanoid robots will soon play a central role in that transformation. In ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Humanoid robots are back. Videos of robots folding laundry or brewing espresso have flooded social ...