“Technostuff” built in the last 100 years outweighs all the living matter on Earth. By Dennis Overbye Call us Homo slobbus. It took roughly four billion years for the first living bit of ...

Michael Timothy Bennett receives funding from the Australian government. Elija Perrier receives funding from the Australian government. A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved ...

President-elect Trump chose Chad Mizelle, a former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official, to be the next chief of staff at the Department of Justice (DOJ). Mizelle, an ally of the ...

Human minibrains in little vials surprised scientists by surviving a stint in low-Earth orbit. US researchers sent lab-grown blobs of human neural tissue known as organoids for a short holiday on the ...

DHS says the new rules also will codify USCIS’ authority to conduct on-site inspections and impose penalties to companies that don’t comply with regulations. New forms to petition for H-1B visas will ...

Michael Boyce, Director of the DHS AI Corps, said in a blog post that the new tool — dubbed DHSChat — is “now available to all the roughly 19,000 employees at DHS headquarters and select ...

The tool was developed by DHS’s AI Corps and its director, Michael Boyce, after employees experimented with commercial generative AI tools, including Claude and ChatGPT. In a statement, Homeland ...

From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’t decompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human biology It can sometimes feel like health ...

People tend to have the sense that their inner thoughts and feelings are much richer than what they are capable of expressing in real time. Elon Musk has spoken publicly about this “bandwidth ...

Geographical barriers and cultural differences can prevent people from mingling with their neighbors, leading to genetic isolation — and the phenomenon is more common than most people think ...

According to the most commonly accepted theory, modern humans left Africa around 60,000 years ago, mingling with Neanderthals along the way. This interaction left a legacy of two to three percent ...