Tag: Humans
Chimps, Humans and Macaques All Have a Drive to ‘People Watch’
September 1, 20252 min readThe Primal Pull of People WatchingOur social voyeurism may have deep evolutionary rootsBy Clarissa Brincat edited by Sarah Lewin...
How Key Changes to the Pelvis Helped Humans Walk Upright
August 29, 20253 min readHow Humans Became Upright: Key Changes to Our Pelvis FoundGenetic and anatomical data reveal how the human pelvis acquired...
Tests that AIs Often Fail and Humans Ace Could Pave the...
There are many ways to test the intelligence of an artificial intelligence—conversational fluidity, reading comprehension or mind-bendingly difficult physics. But some of the...
Could Bird Flu Spread between Humans? Here’s What It Would Take
H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human...
How and Why Humans Began to Sing, a Musicology and Neuroscience...
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. We’re wrapping up our week of summer reruns with one of my absolute...
Creating Bird Flu Vaccines for Humans at a Biosecure Laboratory
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. This is the final episode of our three-part series on bird flu.(You can...
Could AI Really Kill Off Humans?
There’s a popular sci-fi cliché that one day artificial intelligence goes rogue and kills every human, wiping out the species. Could this truly...
Which Knot Is Stronger? Humans Aren’t Great Judges
Humans are pretty good at guessing whether a towering stack of dishes in the sink will topple over or where a pool ball...
