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BEIJING, April 3 (Reuters) - China's cyberspace regulator issued draft regulations on Friday to oversee the development online of digital humans, requiring clear labelling and banning services that ...

Humans are animals. This statement, although true, is unsettling for many people. Such discomfort reveals a deep ambivalence about how we see ourselves — a part of nature, yet somehow different from ...

New research from the University of Lincoln, UK, is challenging a common assumption about the evolutionary origins of human violence, suggesting that everyday aggression does not inevitably lead to ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every corner of the world, and can thrive in deserts, tropical rainforests and even ...

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Humans are living out their animal instincts through the therian movement. A small online subculture, those who identify as therians claim to have a nonhuman identity — one they embrace in their ...

Artificial intelligence is already being used to write romance novels, academic papers and software applications. But how does A.I. stack up against some of the world’s best human writers? Skeptics ...

AI agents can now be used to predict and simulate human behavior—a capability that startup Simile is tapping to help large companies like CVS Health and Gallup replace people for polling and market ...

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the experts their thoughts on how conceivable the plot is. Some scientists believe ...

Scientists have finally come face-to-face with an ancient human ancestor called Little Foot. A new digital reconstruction reveals the visage of one of our oldest close human relatives, researchers ...

Around 2% of modern humans carry Neanderthal DNA, meaning we know early humans got super intimate with our now-extinct relatives. According to new research, when Neanderthals and humans did hit it off ...