The discovery of a new fossil has once again turned our understanding of human evolution on its head. This monumental find suggests that hominins may have ventured out of Africa much earlier than ...

A model predicting the point at which AI could develop a ‘superintelligence’ and develop autonomously has been delayed ...

Daniel Kokotajlo predicted the end of the world would happen in April 2027. In AI 2027 —a document outlining the impending ...

“Timelines” is a short-hand term AI researchers use to describe how soon they think we’ll achieve artificial general intelligence, or AGI. While its definition is contentious, AGI is basically an AI ...

A centuries-long prophecy predicting space wars, planetary disasters, immortality and humanity's ultimate end resurfaces.

Researchers believe a skull unearthed in 1990 suggests the emergence of the human species occurred 400,000 years earlier than previously believed The fossil was discovered in China’s Hubei Province ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...