Giving robots rights is a bad idea, according to a new analysis. The Confucian alternative of assigning rites offers a better way.

Research has found that urban gulls work out what’s good to eat by watching humans.

A new study finds human supervisors have the potential to reduce barriers to deploying autonomous vehicles.

Software you may already use every day can track your productivity for your employer.

Signs of controlled fire use from Spain are at least 50,000 years older than previous evidence.

To shed light on where, when, and how humans originated in Africa, researchers took a new approach using contemporary genomic evidence.

When you stop treating AI as another human, you’ll get on with it better.

When you stop treating AI as another human, you’ll get on with it better.

Environmental DNA provides a wealth of information for conservationists, archaeologists and forensic scientists. But the unintentional pickup of human genetic information raises ethical questions.

The analysis could help us understand behavioural differences between the two groups of humans.