Your news feature ‘How close is AI to human-level intelligence?’ (Nature 636, 22–25; 2024) describes three abilities that artificial-intelligence tools called large language models (LLMs ...

Our hands perform thousands of complex tasks every day – can artificial intelligence help robots match these extraordinary human appendages? The human hand is one of the most staggeringly ...

The SE01 humanoid robot, which previously made headlines for achieving one of the most human-like gaits, has again captured global attention. Chinese robotics firm EngineAI has posted a new video ...

And it’s revealed we’re riddled with errors. Every human being is a vast mosaic of cells that are mostly identical, but different here or there, from one cell or group of cells to the next.

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The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...

State Key Laboratory of Vaccines for Infectious Diseases, Xiang An Biomedicine Laboratory & Center for Molecular Imaging and Translational Medicine, National Innovation Platform for Industry-Education ...

Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich Germany Max Planck Institute for ...