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 ...

There’s an old joke about a con who gets locked up in prison with a PhD student cellmate. The con starts plotting his escape, settling on a tunnel as the best option. After months of digging he ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Over the last 15 years or so, there’s been a huge shift in the way our cities are lit—and NASA astronaut Don Pettit has the photos to prove it. Pettit has spent almost 600 days in space snapping ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...