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Can humans really go to Mars? Mars shares reasonable similarities with Earth. Similar tilt axis, summer and winter seasons, clouds, volcanoes, polar ice caps, much more. A Martian day (sol) is only 40 ...

But life on Earth is never quite so straightforward, especially not when it comes to the most socially complex species we know: humans. University of Cambridge researchers have now uncovered an ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a new study suggests we might be vastly ...

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Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the moon and worships gods? For decades, many scholars have argued that the difference ...

Today’s artificial intelligence (AI) systems can’t beat humans on long tasks, but they’re improving at a rapid pace and could close the gap sooner than many anticipated, according to an ...

Luna is a robot dog that learns and adapts like humans The robot dog has a functional digital nervous system Future humanoid robots could be used in space, deep seas STOCKHOLM, March 19 (Reuters ...

However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity ... when everything is practically weightless. The heart and your blood vessels also have an easier time as they no longer have to ...

The evolutionary path leading to the rise of modern humans is full of twists and turns, and the latest surprise reveals that our species likely sprung forth from two ancient intermingling populations.

Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope showed that more galaxies rotate in one direction than the other. According to one researcher, this could mean that the universe is actually ...