Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

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In my last post 1 I asked what happens if API tokens (Universal Token Standard, or UTS) become a universal monetary standard — a computational lingua franca that makes AI labor legible, tradeable, and ...

Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats—solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, conducting encyclopedic surveys of academic literature, and even finding ...

In an article published in Behavior Research Methods, a team of researchers from The University of Osaka studied the "impressions" LLMs form of words along several different dimensions and compared ...

Data suggests autonomous vehicles are far safer than human drivers. For instance, of 25 of Waymo’s most serious crashes, 17 involved a human driver rear-ending a robotaxi. This indicates that people ...