Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a ...

At CES 2026, the conversation at the LA Times Studios and Monks lounge moved beyond simple gadgets and into the realm of spatial communication. Faith Pinnow sat down with David Nussbaum, Founder of ...

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. By Franz Lidz Researchers on Wednesday ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an international research team. The famous “Little Foot” skeleton from South Africa has ...

Aside from our big brains, the trait that most distinguishes humans from other animals is our ability to walk fully upright on two legs, a style of movement without parallel in the animal kingdom. But ...

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I'm in a midtown Manhattan office, chatting with a life-sized, 3D avatar of William Shatner, who gesticulates inside a 7-foot-tall, 410-lbs box called the Proto Luma, a hologram-beaming device that ...

As we age, the human brain rewires itself. The process happens in distinct phases, or “epochs,” according to new research, as the structure of our neural networks changes and our brains reconfigure ...

Proto-Earth is the term used to describe the earliest days of our planet, the body from which our pale blue dot evolved. At this stage of its geological evolution, it likely existed only for a ...

Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites. One hypothesis has been that our proto-Earth (what the earliest stages of ...

Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin and shows foot features that are transitioning from vertical climbing to bipedal walking. While Ardi has the primitive grasping big toe of the ...

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...