Scientists Say Our Brains Are 13% Smaller Than They Were 100,000 Years Ago

Scientists Say Our Brains Are 13% Smaller Than They Were 100,000 Years Ago

Humans are undoubtedly smarter than they were 100,000 years ago. But that statement is not actually accurate, as most people would think. The reality is we have accumulated so much knowledge and complex technologies that made our primitive ancestors look dumber than we do. Studies have shown that human anatomy, even from the past, has … Read more

Scientists Once Thought a Supervolcano 74,000 Years Ago Almost Wiped Us Out — The Eruption Was Still One of the Biggest Ever

Scientists Once Thought a Supervolcano 74,000 Years Ago Almost Wiped Us Out — The Eruption Was Still One of the Biggest Ever

74,000 years ago, a supervolcano almost wiped out all of the humans in the world; however, scientists said they were wrong and that there was no genetic bottleneck observed during this time. A genetic bottleneck refers to an event that significantly reduced the population of a particular living organism, leading to a decrease in genetic … Read more

Scientists Say We Once Shared the Planet With at Least 8 Other Human Species — And Now We’re the Only Ones Left

Scientists Say We Once Shared the Planet With at Least 8 Other Human Species — And Now We’re the Only Ones Left

Did you know that a long time ago, at one point, modern humans were not the only human species walking around the planet? Scientists have estimated that there are at least 8 other human species living on Earth at the same time we did. They all lived across Africa, Europe, and Asia with varying sizes … Read more

An Ancient Child’s Fossil Suggests Blue Eyes May Have First Appeared 17,000 Years Ago, Scientists Say

An Ancient Child’s Fossil Suggests Blue Eyes May Have First Appeared 17,000 Years Ago, Scientists Say

We already know that blue eyes are a genetic mutation that only happened recently compared to hundreds of thousands of years of human existence. It has been traced back to around 6,000 to 10,000 years ago in a person who lived in Europe. However, a new fossil found indicates that the first person to have … Read more

Scientists Say There Was No Evidence for a Great Flood — But Studies Suggest Something Wiped Out 99% of Humans 800,000 Years Ago

Scientists Say There Was No Evidence for a Great Flood — But Studies Suggest Something Wiped Out 99% of Humans 800,000 Years Ago

The Great Flood refers to a catastrophic global event that is said to have happened around the world, which is famously depicted in the Noah’s Ark biblical story. However, it is also a recurring theme among mythologies and folklore in different places across the globe. This phenomenon suggests a shared human experience of an important … Read more

Scientists Say Evolution Is No Longer “Just a Theory” — It’s a Fact, and It’s Still Happening Today

Scientists Say Evolution Is No Longer Just a Theory — It’s a Fact, and It’s Still Happening Today

Evolution is the concept of living things changing over a long period of time to adapt and survive in their environments. It involves changes in traits that can be passed down to their offspring through their genetic information. It is basically a process of inheriting characteristics from living organisms that gradually diverged from the population … Read more

Scientists Say We Might Merge With AI in about 20 Years — And It Could Change Humanity Forever

Scientists Say We Might Merge With AI in about 20 Years — And It Could Change Humanity Forever 2

AI or artificial intelligence is already here, and it will be for the foreseeable future. Some scientists even predict that they will reach the singularity sooner than we expected. That means their intelligence will surpass that of humans until we can’t comprehend or understand them at all. When we reach this point, where we are … Read more

Scientists Say the Singularity Is Coming — And the Gap Between AI and Human Intelligence Is Closing Fast

Scientists Say the Singularity Is Coming — And the Gap Between AI and Human Intelligence Is Closing Fast 1

Singularity refers to a point sometime in the near future where technological advancements become so powerful and fast that they surpass human understanding. This event will revolve around artificial intelligence and human intelligence, closing the gap. First, they will be as smart as us and just as capable, then they will be able to escape … Read more