Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

As AI continues to encroach on every aspect of our lives, there is a persistent fear or hope, depending on your angle: AI will someday take over art. The internet is full of quizzes showing that most ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. When writing headlines for stories about human evolution, ...

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Long before wooden beds or woven mattresses, humans were already paying close attention to where they slept. New research from Border Cave, on the border of South Africa and Eswatini, is shedding ...

Consumers react poorly to marketing and products that were (or are perceived to have been) designed with AI, according to Colleen Kirk at the New York Institute of Technology. Marketplace’s Stephanie ...