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 ...

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 ...

What do cavemen and NASA researchers have in common? Both of their work benefits from the decorrelation stretch technique—a method of image processing originally developed by NASA scientists to tease ...

But first a note about social isolation and loneliness. While they may seem like interchangeable phenomena, they’re subtly different. Social isolation is an objective measure of how many social ...

Scroll through social media these days and you’ll likely come across someone injecting themselves with a clear liquid, waxing lyrical about how it’s changed their body for the better, improved their ...

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 ...

Toad smoking has been called “the Everest of psychedelics.” Over the past decade, this practice has “gone exponential,” a clinical psychologist who studies psychedelics tells journalist Kimon de Greef ...

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 ...

Cheneal Puljević is a UQ amplify senior research fellow in the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland.

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Unfortunately we don’t live in that world, and many of us will spend our later years fighting off sarcopenia, or the loss of muscle mass as we age. To make matters worse, this gradual decline in ...