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Humans have only seen 0.001 percent of the ocean floor

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 We know next to nothing about Earth’s seafloors. According to a study published May…

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Rhythmically trained sea lion returns for an encore — and performs as well as humans

Animal research on biomusicality, which looks at whether different species are capable of behaving in ways that show they recognize…

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This sea lion can keep a beat better than some humans

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 While humans may have cornered the market on writing songs (including public safety inspired…

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Awkward. Humans are still better than AI at reading the room

Humans, it turns out, are better than current AI models at describing and interpreting social interactions in a moving scene…

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AI still can’t beat humans at reading social cues 

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 AI models have progressed rapidly in recent years and can already outperform humans in…

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Cheers to Bronze Age humans for delicious Italian wine

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Just like the aging of a fine wine, the domestication of grapevines throughout Italy…

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How activity in Earth’s mantle led the ancient ancestors of elephants, giraffes, and humans into Asia and Africa

What roils beneath the Earth’s surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that…

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Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile

If the idea of robots taking on humans in a road race conjures dystopian images of android athletic supremacy, then…

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Environmental variability promotes the evolution of cooperation among humans: A simulation-based analysis

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation…

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Sunscreen may have kept ancient humans alive during a polar reversal

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Despite the sunscreen misinformation you might see online, ancient humans did face problems from…

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