Yes, it’s obviously very complex, but if these bots are capable of figuring out how to rewrite their own code, band together, and deceive programmers in the interest of self-preservation, it suggests ...

From the age of three, the 12th Century nun, mystic, poet and composer Hildegard von Bingen had dazzling visions of shimmering points of light and falling stars, which she recorded in detail in her ...

“The abyssal plain covers half of the surface of the Earth, but far less than one percent of it has ever been seen,” begins the trailer for new deep-sea documentary, How Deep Is Your Love. Thanks to ...

Around 631,000 years ago—a geological blink of an eye—catastrophe unfolded in what is now north-western Wyoming, US. During what is thought to have been a series of immense volcanic eruptions, life ...

It’s a sight you don’t see often, or ever: a common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) apparently hitching a ride on the back of a Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus) by clinging onto its fin. Featured Video ...

In May 1916, the explorers set off for land, battling violent winds, currents, and ice floes. They rowed until their bodies were ragged. Soon they began seeing things: “resemblances to human faces and ...

Your brain is talking to your skeleton, and more than you probably realize. For example, doctors have long noticed something odd about people with traumatic brain injuries—their bones heal faster.

Caitlin Bloomer, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, found a crayfish so huge, she felt like it might be a record-setter. “I thought, ‘There’s no doubt I have ...

The researchers observed the behavior of a dolphin in shallow waters on the southern Great Barrier Reef over a four-year period, both through snorkeling and video. Overall, the dolphin stole food 11 ...

The earliest known dinosaurs lived in Tanzania 240 million years ago—at least that was the best evidence-based hypothesis until yesterday, which is when the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology ...

Sarcopenia, or muscle loss and weakness, is among the crueler consequences of aging. Not only are you gradually robbed of your ability to perform everyday tasks, your walking speed slows down and your ...

How a single cell becomes a magnificent human brain capable of building airplanes and writing sonatas is “one of the great astonishments of the earth,” wrote physician, and author Lewis Thomas in his ...