The human ability to teach and our use of complex tools may have evolved together, according to new research. The human ability to teach and our use of complex tools may have evolved together, ...

The discovery of a 1.4-million-year-old hand-bone fossil reveals that the modern human ability to make and use complex tools may have originated far earlier than scientists previously thought, ...

I wasn't very good at math when I was a student. That's always been a great disappointment to me, because being able to intelligently manipulate numbers seems to be one of the great achievements of ...

What are the best tools for Agile? Agile as a methodology can seem somewhat freeform, despite following rather rigid planning. Further, since Agile projects are typically broken down into individual ...

A new study finds that chimpanzees that use a multi-step process and complex tools to gather termites are more likely to share tools with novices. The study helps illuminate chimpanzees' capacity for ...

In today’s rapidly evolving manufacturing environment, closed and proprietary technology systems are failing to meet the latest shop floor demands. At the same time, outdated tools are making it more ...

Rocks carved into ancient stone arrowheads or into lethal tools for hurling spears suggest humans innovated relatively advanced weapons much earlier than thought, researchers in South Africa say. The ...

Archaeologists are uncovering toolkits and watercraft that do not sit neatly inside the familiar story of slow, linear progress from scattered foragers to settled farmers. Instead, these finds hint at ...

The construction industry has long grappled with the challenge of effective project scheduling. Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling, while powerful, has often been the domain of specialized ...

The human ability to teach and our use of complex tools may have evolved together, according to new research. The improvement of technologies across generations, known as "cumulative cultural ...