In this excerpt, Pepi assesses whether AI — the technology at the heart of so many of these platforms — can ever emulate the human feelings that move us, through the prism of art.

Scientists call this a “neural fossil”, a leftover trait from our evolutionary past that refuses to fade away. Yet, despite being functionally obsolete, the muscles around the human ear—the auricular ...

A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray. Analyzing a wealth of DNA collected from fossilized human bones, the researchers found that the first Indo-European speakers ...

The authors reasoned that many similarities between the appearance of cartilage under the microscope for zebrafish gills and human ears cannot be just a coincidence. Knowing that both the gills ...

Tens of millions of years ago, our primate ancestors responded to noises in much the same way many other mammals do, pricking their ears and deftly turning them towards the sound's source. While a few ...

The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent between 2016 and 2024, according to a new study Sarah Kuta Daily ...

Of course they’ve made their way into human tissue, he says. Earlier studies have found them in lungs, intestines, blood, liver and placenta. In the samples collected in 2024, concentrations of ...

A new study finds microplastics accumulate at higher levels in human brains than in the liver and kidneys. Microplastics, plastic particles fewer than 5 millimeters in size, have infiltrated the ...

In almost every species, ear movement can be a clue that the animal is trying to pay close attention to something. When people are trying hard to listen to something, the body seems to do its best ...

Credit: NPS/Kurt Moses NASA scientists have uncovered significant changes in the global water cycle over the past two decades, largely driven by human activities such as agriculture. Their findings ...

The muscles that enable modern humans to wiggle their ears likely had a more important job in our evolutionary ancestors. . | Credit: Khmelyuk/Getty Images The little muscles that enable people to ...

Although the human brain is capable of sifting through a billion bits of information per second, scientists recently found that the top speed of human thought only comes in at roughly 10 bits per ...