Marine companions: When your fishing buddy has a snout and a blowhole
The two species of predators have coordinated their fishing for generations.
Sentience challenges AI: Actually insipid until actively insidious
When AI hurtles into adulthood and isn’t so artificial anymore, we’ll be relegated to being the family pets, as a resigned Steve Wozniak put it.
Rare island bunnies do a parasitic plant’s bidding
While scientists had long figured that B. yuwanensis relied on the wind to spread its seeds, dense plants growing beneath the tree canopy cut down on...
Empire unravels: UK’s cautionary tale of self-destruction
Great Britain has long since formally relinquished its dreams of world domination, but the implied bargain of imperial retreat was something like a...
In memoriam: K Alex Muller, innovator in ceramic superconductors
In the decades that followed, scientists made incremental progress at discovering materials that became super-conductive at higher temperatures.
Sleight of evolution: Unlocking genes that turned whales into giants
The first whales were the size of wolves and sea lions, a far cry from the submarine-size behemoths that swim the seas today.
David Crosby, a folk-rock voice that spanned decades
Crosby’s image as the twinkle-eyed stoner and sardonic hedonist of the cosmic age was said to have been a model for the obstinate free spirit played...
Are we living in a computer simulation?
In recent years the idea that our universe, including ourselves and all of our innermost thoughts, is a computer simulation, running on a thinking...
