Tuttle Capital has launched the UFO Disclosure ETF (UFOD), an actively managed fund investing in companies linked to possible non-human intelligence technologies. -- The fund launches after former ...

In 1957, Julian Huxley summarized the term transhumanism as “man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature”[1]. Transhumanism uses current and ...

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

Living on Mars, humans would experience just 38% the gravity of Earth and would be exposed to much more radiation. These two ...

NASA uses a vision-language model (VLM) called Claude for the first time to plan two separate drives on Mars for the ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

OLLOBOT reports on the rise of cyber-pets, AI-driven companions reshaping relationships in a digital age, signaling evolving ...

A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives ...

New Scientist is 60 years old this week, and what better way to celebrate a landmark birthday than to wax lyrical about another time. But we’re not going to hark back to the past. We’re going to gaze ...

Born on the same day, Bill and Ben both grew up to have high status. But in every other way they were polar opposites.

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have a new book titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us ...

Ancient DNA is turning human prehistory into something startlingly intimate. Instead of a clean handoff from one species to another, the last 50,000 years look more like a long, tangled story of ...