Genome sequencing has been used to determine how much genes influence human characteristics including height and weight, and ...

Researchers from the University of Queensland and Illumina analyzed DNA from 347,630 UK Biobank participants to determine how ...

The human brain has an extraordinary ability to take a fundamental biological need and develop it in ways completely unknown to other species. Many species build or inhabit shelters or nests: but only ...

Attributing human traits to machines is nothing new, but with the rise of generative artificial intelligence, anthropomorphism is taking on a new dimension. This trend raises crucial philosophical and ...

The most luxurious human characteristic—and the one that preoccupies us the most—might be our hair. We curl it, dye it, cut it, braid it and straighten it. We style it to suit our self-image, spending ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Bipedal locomotion - walking upright on two legs - is a fundamental trait underpinning humankind's success. Scientists now have identified two innovations that occurred ...

A new study suggests that advanced artificial intelligence models, increasingly used in medicine, can exhibit human-like ...