My dog is smart, but without an opposable thumb, he still can't open the door to let himself out. Humanoid robots have a ...

Starting this month, one institute of higher learning will offer a free, ongoing webinar series meant to help people ...

Rahul Naskar has years of experience writing news and features related to Android, phones, and apps. Outside the tech world, he follows global events and developments shaping the world of geopolitics.

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new University of Cambridge study that includes a table ranking ...

University of Tennessee provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. One of my favorite activities is going to the zoo where I live in Knoxville when it first opens and the animals are most ...

Humans are not well adapted to live in modern cities—and this may be having a big impact on our health and wellbeing. This is the claim of evolutionary scientists from Loughborough University, England ...

Because of different types of sensory nerve endings in our fingertips, we are amazingly good at sensing hidden objects in granular materials like sand. Fingers moving over sand cause perturbations in ...

What's in the box? If you are delivered medications or medical supplies, don't assume that whatever you received is necessarily the right thing. (Photo: Getty) A woman in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, was ...

A Kentucky woman who was expecting a medicine delivery opened the package only to discover severed human arms and fingers on ice, according to a report. After receiving the gruesome surprise on ...

A Kentucky woman, expecting medicine and other medical supplies in the mail, instead received a box of human body parts, authorities said. A package that was meant for 'surgical training' went to the ...