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 ...

New discoveries in archaeology, genetics, and geology are piling up and they do not fit the clean textbook story of slow human progress. Evidence points to sudden cataclysms, lost knowledge, and ...

Ancient human skull fossils (stock image). A human skull found in 1990 is now changing scientists' understanding of human evolution. In a study published in the journal Science on Sept. 25, ...

An expert has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could be the “last technology humanity ever builds” as a so-called “doom timeline” predicting the point at which it could overtake humankind has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “Timelines” is a short-hand term AI researchers use to describe how soon they think we’ll achieve ...