Jane Goodall documented chimpanzees performing rhythmic, repetitive movements at waterfalls — behavior she described as driven by awe, not survival. Ethologists have since recorded elephants touching ...

Taken together, these signals suggest one thing: we may be closer to AGI—and to systems capable of passing the Turing ...

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that midlife is not linked to the risk of ...

"How heroic are you if you only do it when you’re threatened?” Seehorn ponders in a deep-dive conversation with The Hollywood ...

A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association showed that when it comes to managing surgical bleeding, ...

The idea that the universe itself might be intelligent sounds like science fiction, yet a growing group of researchers is ...

We tend to think of human behavior as deeply shaped by group lines. Again and again, research in social psychology and social ...

I may not be an artist, but I’ve become a translator of attention, a facilitator of curiosity, a witness to the moment a ...

Misinformation isn’t just human. A new study shows how false signals spread across biology, from bacteria to bird flocks.

When we are awake, we seem to experience a continuous stream of sensations, reflections, memories, and impressions that make ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...