Imagine a snake so massive it would have to squeeze through your office door to get at you. That was Titanoboa, the largest ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the humid swamps of what is now Colombia, there was once ...

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A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...

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What if the machines we’ve built to mimic human intelligence are, in some ways, as limited as they are extraordinary? While AI dazzles us with its ability to compose symphonies, ace strategy games, ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

AI is efficient, but it isn’t always accurate. To succeed in the age of automation, leaders must pair AI’s speed with distinctly human values. AI boosts productivity by automating repetitive tasks, ...

A little over two years ago, AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio was among the loudest voices calling for a moratorium on AI model development to focus on safety standards. No one paused. Instead, companies ...

Everyone is working to find how artificial intelligence can give them a leg up in their respective fields, and the U.S. military is no different. From enhancing the capabilities of battle-tested ...

What happened on Earth after the dinosaurs died? Humans could learn a thing or two from the tiny creatures that survived and evolved after an asteroid wiped out most of the life on Earth more than 66 ...