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 ...

The good news? The dazzling Laimosemion laranja killifish was just discovered in the Brazilian Amazon. The bad news? The team that discovered it is already recommending that it be placed on the ...

Bruce Damer had the audience under his Gandalf spell. He was giving a keynote speech in a grand hall at Breaking Convention, a psychedelic-consciousness conference in Exeter, England, in April 2025.

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.

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 ...

With one in five people experiencing some form of chronic pain, it’s a simmering global health problem. Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical solutions come with their own complications, like unequal ...

The multidisciplinary team, led by radiologists at Johns Hopkins University, used a deep-learning algorithm to calculate the bone density of vertebrae based on chest CT scans from more than 2,000 ...

A new study on the dismal mortality rate in the United States is out, and it’s bleak. The analysis from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Steven H. Woolf investigates life expectancy and age-based ...

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 ...

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 ...

When people talk about the speed of light being a constant, they often leave out a very important qualifier: “in a vacuum.” Light waves travel slower through certain media, and the same is true of ...

Before European explorers arrived in the United States, the native Mississippian culture thrived across the midwestern and southeastern parts of the country. Known for the mounds they built and their ...