Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Stone Age humans were engraving complex, meaningful symbol systems onto ...
The history of writing down thoughts and feelings could be tens of thousands of years older than previously believed, surprising archaeologists who made the discovery. The researchers discerned ...
Early European hunter-gatherers developed a sophisticated method of information storage long before the advent of formal ...
New analysis of Neanderthal bones from Belgium indicates targeted cannibalism of outsiders that may signal territorial conflict before their regional disappearance.
Claude has an 84-page constitution, a so-called “soul document,” that aims “to avoid large-scale catastrophes” such as a “global takeover either by AIs pursuing goals that run contrary to those of ...
They suggest our Stone Age ancestors were carving signs on figurines, sculptures and tools some 40,000 years ago, according to new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and ...
We are still clawing back some of the things we lost in the pandemic. Saint John’s — Capitol Hill’s only queer dinosaur eatery — is doing brunch again. Part of the neighborhood ...
This week, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory issued its first real-time sky alerts, inaugurating a monitoring system set to transform how we study the universe.