Two dental experts explain that these furthest-back molars may be a not-so-necessary leftover from early human evolution.

MIT researchers develop a customized onboarding process that helps a human learn when a model’s advice is trustworthy.

Decades ago, the international community codified science as a cultural right and protected expression of human creativity. Reaffirming science’s value can help it better serve humanity.

Human Guided Exploration (HuGE) enables AI agents to learn quickly with some help from humans, even if the humans make mistakes.

Forensic anthropologists are specialized scientists who analyze the skeletal remains of the recently deceased to help authorities figure out who the person was and what happened to them.

Hundreds of wildlife rehabilitation centers across the US and Canada treat sick and injured animals and birds. Digitizing their records is yielding valuable data on human-wildlife encounters.

A study by philosopher Kevin Dorst explains how political differences can result from a process of “rational polarization.”

As one of our closest living animal relatives, bonobos show humanlike ability to work together outside social borders in new study.

Female bodies have an advantage in endurance ability that means Paleolithic women likely hunted game, not just gathered plants. The story is written in living and ancient human bodies.

By blending 2D images with foundation models to build 3D feature fields, a new MIT method helps robots understand and manipulate nearby objects with open-ended language prompts.