Every single aspect of human life across the broadest categories of human organization is being reoriented around the pursuit of attention. It is now the defining resource of our age. The ...

And it’s revealed we’re riddled with errors. Every human being is a vast mosaic of cells that are mostly identical, but different here or there, from one cell or group of cells to the next.

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil— The oldest human being in the world is Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, a 116-year-old nun from the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul who was born on May 27, 1908. Sister Inah became ...

“Eating and Being,” by Steven Shapin, a historian of science at Harvard, traces the evolution of “how we think about our food and its fate in our bodies.” Across its nearly 600 dense ...

A loose concept gives The Human Fear some shape and purpose. Kapranos describes it as “a bunch of songs searching for the thrill of being human via fears.” Not that there’s much soul-baring ...

Dec. 5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes ... A Fossil First: Scientists Find ...