Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Humans come from Africa. This wasn’t always obvious, but ...

In a popular sci-fi cliché, one day artificial intelligence goes rogue and kills every human, wiping out the species. Could this truly happen? In real-world surveys, AI researchers say that they see ...

Ideas about the global dispersal of Homo sapiens have changed over time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Modern humans now ...

Since ChatGPT’s launch two years ago, generative AI (gen AI) has been promising to reshape how work gets done. The use cases are many and varied, and we’re still discovering what’s going to work best, ...

On paper, the U.S. economy has been strong. Inflation is down from its 2022 peak, the labor market remains solid and robust consumer spending is fueling gross domestic product growth. But all those ...

U.S. inflation rose 2.6% on an annual basis last month, representing an uptick from September when the Federal Reserve began cutting interest rates amid signs of cooling prices and a weaker labor ...

Consumer prices rose 2.4 percent versus last year, ticking down from the pace of the previous month. It was less of a slowdown than economists had expected, but there was good news about housing costs ...

In the early trade, the momo crowd is ignoring the data and aggressively buying the slight dip in AI stocks. The buying in AI stocks is due to front running a speech by Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. The ...

Surging inflation during President Biden’s first two years took a huge toll on his popularity, and the memory of that inflationary episode is probably the main reason that, at least until recently, ...