Humans could learn from chimpanzees and bonobos, who turn to group members for physical comfort during tense moments.

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A small study suggests emotional fit, not perfect accuracy, may make chatbot versions of dead loved ones feel real.

Scientists recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls for the first time. Refined, the method could help link prehistoric ...

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the history of unethical practices in research on human remains and the progress toward ...

February 2018 as the editor in chief of Science News. Shute is a science journalist in print, digital and broadcast, and a ...

Ultimate success,” says the synthetic biologist, would be that “all the atoms we’re moving in our economy are moved with ...

In 2021, local journalists reported that the University of Pennsylvania had been keeping human remains from the ...

In Spring 2025, we — Lilly Fang, Lester Mackey and our two children — noticed that something odd was happening to our family.

Astronomers found a helium atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet — a good sign for the search for life outside the solar system ...

A new generation of therapies aims to intervene at a recently discovered gap between the disease’s molecular march and its ...