Tag: Humans
Humans Made Poisoned Arrowheads Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
January 7, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmHumans Made Poisoned Arrowheads Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously ThoughtThe use of poison...
Indian scientists predict how bird flu could spread to humans
Soutik BiswasIndia correspondentTribune News Service via Getty ImagesThe simulations also highlighted an awkward trade-off. Quarantine, introduced too early, keeps families together for long...
Ancient Humans Were Making Fire 350,000 Years Earlier Than Scientists Realized
December 10, 20253 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmAncient Humans Were Making Fire 350,000 Years Earlier Than Scientists RealizedMaking fire on demand...
Kissing May Have Evolved 21.5 Million Years Ago in Ancestor of...
November 19, 20253 min readKissing May Have Evolved 21.5 Million Years AgoHumans and their ancestors have likely been kissing for a very long...
Humans In The Loop On OTT: When And Where To Watch...
New Delhi: Aranya Sahay’s acclaimed directorial, Humans in the Loop, is set to stream worldwide exclusively on Netflix starting October 31. The film,...
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...
