At first glance it looks like nothing of this planet – a creature with a pointed object sticking out of its head, half man, half unicorn. But scientists are getting closer to unraveling the mystery of the Petralona skull. The ancient cranium – discovered in Petralona Cave, about 22 miles south–east of Thessaloniki in Greece – is less than 300,000 years …
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Cats with cancer may hold the key to new human therapies – The Times
Cats with cancer may hold the key to new human therapies The Times California cancer drug trial for cats shows potential for human treatment KCRA Cats may hold key to treating human cancer, scientists say The Independent First-of-Its-Kind Drug Shrunk Oral Tumors in Pet Cats the-scientist.com First clinical trial in cats tests targeted therapy for deadly head and neck cancer News-Medical Source link
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Cohen, J. D., McClure, S. M. & Yu, A. J. Should I stay or should I go? How the human brain manages the trade-off between exploitation and exploration. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 362, 933–942 (2007). PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Daw, N. D., O’Doherty, J. P., Dayan, P., Seymour, B. & Dolan, R. J. Cortical substrates for exploratory decisions …
Read More »Scientists Sequenced the DNA of the ‘Last Neanderthal’—and It Alters Human History
“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, led by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the Neanderthal’s remains and began to analyze …
Read More »The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality
Knowledge emerges from understanding how ideas relate to each other. LLMs operate on these contextual relationships, linking concepts in potentially novel ways—what you might call a type of non-human “reasoning” through pattern recognition. Whether the resulting linkages the AI model outputs are useful depends on how you prompt it and whether you can recognize when the LLM has produced a …
Read More »Two evolutionary changes underpinning human bipedalism are discovered – Reuters
Two evolutionary changes underpinning human bipedalism are discovered Reuters The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps Nature Uncovering the Genes That Let Our Ancestors Walk Upright The New York Times New Research Reveals How Reshaping Pelvis Helped Human Ancestors Walk Upright Sci.News Irish scientist helps crack mystery of how humans came to stand on two legs The Irish Independent Source link
Read More »Mysterious Skull Fused to Cave Wall Could Belong to a Rare Human Species : ScienceAlert
A skull that was found embedded in a cave wall in Greece more than 60 years ago may finally have an identification. A new dating of the minerals that surrounded and grew over the mysterious Petralona skull places its age at 277,000 years at least – and suggesting it is a member of a primitive, extinct hominid that lived alongside …
Read More »"Researchers Cross Ethical Line": China Team Grafts Human Brain Cells Into Mice As Global Outcry Builds Over Dangerous Medical Experimentation – Rude Baguette
“Researchers Cross Ethical Line”: China Team Grafts Human Brain Cells Into Mice As Global Outcry Builds Over Dangerous Medical Experimentation Rude Baguette Source link
Read More »Archaeologists in Georgia unearth 1.8-million-year-old human jawbone – Reuters
Archaeologists in Georgia unearth 1.8-million-year-old human jawbone ReutersView Full Coverage on Google News Source link
Read More »‘Religious leader’ in Durham arrested in $50 million human trafficking, forced labor scheme in multi-state FBI crackdown – CBS17.com
‘Religious leader’ in Durham arrested in $50 million human trafficking, forced labor scheme in multi-state FBI crackdown CBS17.com Church leaders arrested in multi-state money laundering, forced labor investigation FOX 13 Tampa Bay Ministry leaders arrested, including self-proclaimed ‘Apostle,’ as FBI raids NW Houston campus Click2Houston DOJ: FBI search at Avila mansion linked to church’s ‘forced labor and money laundering conspiracy’ wtsp.com Leaders of Kingdom …
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