Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

A curious trend circulating online has left many people puzzled. Videos show residents in Japan placing or dropping small ...

Patrick O'Neill, Managing Partner of Sherlock Communications and winner of the PR Week Global Award for Global Professional: ...

In a French Riviera town nestled between the mountains, the Mediterranean and the Italian border, a disgraced former ...

There are many open questions about how our planet formed 4.55 billion years ago: When did plate tectonics start? When did the Earth's mantle begin to vigorously circulate in a process called ...

When people are shown a spiky shape next to a rounded one and asked which shape is called "kiki" and which one is "bouba," people from all kinds of cultures overwhelmingly associate "bouba" with the ...

We usually don’t know when a mosquito is biting us, and even if we do - it’s too late. But what if mosquitoes were as large as a human? How dangerous would they be? And is it even possible for a ...

Well, today is Valentine's Day, which means love and connection are on people's minds, and I recently met someone who studies one form of affection, kissing. Matilda Brindle is an evolutionary ...

Kanzi, a 43-year-old bonobo living at Ape Initiative, who had been anecdotally reported to engage in pretense and could respond to verbal prompts by pointing. Credit: Ape Initiative A bonobo ...

In my last post 1 I asked what happens if API tokens (Universal Token Standard, or UTS) become a universal monetary standard — a computational lingua franca that makes AI labor legible, tradeable, and ...

A Dalai Lama once said that our prime purpose in this life is to help others – and he may have been right. Scientists have found that having a positive impact on other people seems to be a key element ...

In an article published in Behavior Research Methods, a team of researchers from The University of Osaka studied the "impressions" LLMs form of words along several different dimensions and compared ...