Abstract: In confined indoor spaces, effectively modeling the cooperative behavior of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) with humans is critical to avoid moving obstacles and resolve deadlock situations.

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both ...

Stories centered around true love's kiss might be tales as old as time. And, according to a new study, kisses might even have been around before humans walked the earth. Humans kiss each other ...

Join me as I visit the Humans of New York exhibit at Grand Central Terminal — a moving showcase of stories and portraits celebrating everyday New Yorkers. This vlog explores the exhibit’s emotional ...

Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin and shows foot features that are transitioning from vertical climbing to bipedal walking. While Ardi has the primitive grasping big toe of the ...

For years, scavenging has been cast as the desperate move of early humans – what they did when hunting failed or plants ran dry. But new research argues that carrion – the decaying flesh of dead ...

Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson made viral history on the Humans of New York Instagram account. She died at 81 years old recently. While not a household name, Johnson had a moment on social media in ...

MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- In the heart of New York City, where some 750,000 people pass through every day, something extraordinary is happening. Grand Central's walls, ceilings, and even subway ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically exposed to lead ...