On Hacking Humans, this week Dave Bittner is back with Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of N2K's daily space podcast, T-Minus), and they are sharing the latest in social engineering scams, ...

Undoubtedly. But as we report this week, Mr Johnson is not alone. He is part of a growing movement that sees the human body as just another piece of hardware to be hacked, optimised and upgraded.

Acer saccharum. Have you ever seen these names on plant tags or seed packets and wondered where they came from? We can thank Carl Linnaeus for taxonomy, the study of categorizing and naming organisms, ...

Even so, he was still around two months short of the record for the longest ever spaceflight by a human – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov spent 437 days onboard the Mir Space Station in the ...

Now, Japanese researchers are moving a promising, tooth-regrowing medicine into human trials. If the trial is successful, the researchers hope the drug will become available for all forms of ...

It's a good idea to trim fingernails too, to prevent the eggs from getting caught under them. Threadworms aren't the only worms (helminths) that invade humans. Hookworms, for example, affect about 470 ...

This means that tool technology predates the emergence of our genus, Homo, and that it is not a uniquely human trait, as was long believed. British palaeoanthropologist Kenneth Oakley in the late ...

“Where other AI stops at generating ideas, Manus delivers results. We see it as the next paradigm of human-machine collaboration.” Within days of launching, invitation codes to join early ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Let’s talk about the biggest coincidence in human ...

Despite these concerns, most executives envision collaboration over replacement. Sixty-four percent expect humans and AI to work side by side, with only 21% predicting AI will take the lead role.

Especially when it comes to communication. With no common human–dog language, our ability to communicate relies on understanding and reading our pet, and vice versa. That process can seem seamless.

They say that more needs to be done to understand the potential health impact on foxes, particularly in urban areas, as they eat more human-derived food and less natural food. As part of the study, ...