Human beings

Six out of 10 people may lose jobs to machines by 2025

While nearly 40 percent of workers globally think they would lose their jobs in five years, 56 percent feel that fewer people would obtain long-term employment in the future, the survey showed. More than 60 percent demanded that governments must work to protect their jobs.

Apr 03, 2021, 16:36 PM IST

Man's efforts to defy aging, conquer death, store human mind data may be reality in future

American entrepreneur Bill Marris, who introduced Google Ventures, claimed a few years ago that science and technology could make humans live for at least 500 years.

Apr 29, 2020, 00:35 AM IST

Human evolution is uneven, punctuated: Study

After excavating three new sites in southern Spain, over more than 10 years, the researchers discovered evidence of distinct Neanderthal materials dating from 37,000 years ago.
 

Nov 18, 2017, 17:51 PM IST

Humans began eating grapes 22,000 years ago: Study

The study found evidence that people may have been eating the popular fruit as many as 15,000 years before they domesticated the fruit as an agricultural crop.
 

Nov 03, 2017, 19:42 PM IST

Pigeons better at multitasking than humans: Study

Researchers performed behavioural experiments to test birds and humans and found that the cause of the slight multitasking advantage in birds is their higher neuronal density.

Sep 27, 2017, 19:47 PM IST

How many types of emotions do we possess? - Here's the answer

We have 27 different types of emotions comprising of anger, sadness, fear, surprise and disgust.

Sep 09, 2017, 13:13 PM IST

Man-animal conflict: 59 tuskers, 121 tigers, 450 humans died last year

Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave said in a written reply that out of the 31 people, who died of tiger attacks in 2015-16, the highest toll of 18 was reported from West Bengal.

Mar 20, 2017, 19:25 PM IST

Chimp friendships are based on trust

Friendship between chimpanzee pals is determined on the basis of trust, as amongst human beings, says an interesting study.

Jan 15, 2016, 14:55 PM IST