A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has moved from late night dorm debates into serious physics journals ...

This study from MIT explores eye evolution through AI simulations, uncovering how different tasks shape visual systems and ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared physical AI as enabling “a new era of AI,” a bold proclamation now backed by concrete ...

Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a beautifully preserved face of a 1.5-million-year-old human ancestor—the first complete Early Pleistocene hominin cranium from the Horn ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a significant discovery regarding ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?