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Why a data scientist warns against always trusting AI’s scientific discoveries

Artificial intelligence that helps make scientific discoveries needs to get better at admitting its uncertainty, Genevera Allen says.

By Maria Temming | 1:28pm, February 20, 2019

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Ancestry

News | Ancestry

Ancient DNA suggests people settled South America in at least 3 waves

By Tina Hesman Saey | 9:00am, November 09, 2018

News in Brief | Ancestry

Meet the first known child of a Neandertal and a Denisovan

By Tina Hesman Saey | 1:00pm, August 22, 2018

News | Ancestry

The ‘language gene’ didn’t give humans a big leg up in evolution

By Tina Hesman Saey | 7:00am, August 03, 2018
Anthropology

News | Anthropology

Evolutionarily, grandmas are good for grandkids — up to a point

By Sujata Gupta | 11:00am, February 07, 2019

News | Anthropology

New dates narrow down when Denisovans and Neandertals crossed paths

By Bruce Bower | 1:00pm, January 30, 2019

The Science Life | Anthropology

Why modern javelin throwers hurled Neandertal spears at hay bales

By Bruce Bower | 1:51pm, January 28, 2019
Archaeology

News in Brief | Archaeology

Tooth plaque shows drinking milk goes back 3,000 years in Mongolia

By Carolyn Gramling | 7:00am, February 17, 2019

News | Archaeology

The spread of Europe’s giant stone monuments may trace back to one region

By Bruce Bower | 3:00pm, February 11, 2019

News | Archaeology

DNA reveals early mating between Asian herders and European farmers

By Bruce Bower | 6:00am, February 08, 2019
History of Science

Reviews & Previews | History of Science

‘Beyond Weird’ and ‘What Is Real?’ try to make sense of quantum weirdness

By Tom Siegfried | 8:00am, January 06, 2019

50 Years Ago | History of Science

50 years ago, astronauts orbited the moon for the first time

By Maria Temming | 5:30am, December 27, 2018

Reviews & Previews | History of Science

Two new books explore the science and history of the 1918 flu pandemic

By Cassandra Willyard | 7:00am, December 07, 2018
Human Evolution

News | Human Evolution

An ancient child from East Asia grew teeth like a modern human

By Bruce Bower | 2:12pm, January 16, 2019

News | Human Evolution

‘Little Foot’ skeleton reveals a brain much like a chimp’s

By Bruce Bower | 6:00am, January 10, 2019

Year in Review | Human Evolution

Human smarts got a surprisingly early start

By Bruce Bower | 8:18am, December 17, 2018
Language

News | Language

Artificial intelligence is learning not to be so literal

By Maria Temming | 6:00am, February 05, 2019

News | Language

Here’s what makes satire so funny, according to science

By Maria Temming | 2:39pm, February 01, 2019

News | Language

Huge ‘word gap’ holding back low-income children may not exist after all

By Bruce Bower | 5:30am, September 04, 2018
Networks

The List | Networks

Ask AI: How not to kill online conversations

By Maria Temming | 9:00am, January 03, 2018

The Science Life | Networks

Balloons will broadcast the 2017 solar eclipse live from on high

By Lisa Grossman | 1:30pm, July 26, 2017

Feature | Networks

Big biological datasets map life's networks

By Laurel Hamers | 10:00am, October 19, 2016
Psychology

News | Psychology

STEM professors’ beliefs on intelligence may widen the racial achievement gap

By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, February 15, 2019

News | Psychology

Why it’s key to identify preschoolers with anxiety and depression

By Sujata Gupta | 7:00am, February 03, 2019

News | Psychology

Easing test anxiety boosts low-income students’ biology grades

By Sujata Gupta | 3:00pm, January 14, 2019
Science & Society

News | Science & Society

Tidal floods driven by climate change may hurt small businesses

By Sujata Gupta | 6:00am, February 19, 2019

Feature | Science & Society

Robots are becoming classroom tutors. But will they make the grade?

By Maria Temming | 6:00am, February 12, 2019

It's Alive | Science & Society

Shutdown aside, Joshua trees live an odd life

By Susan Milius | 8:00am, February 06, 2019

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