Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into ...
A Princeton team built a new tantalum-silicon qubit that survives for over a millisecond, far surpassing today’s best devices ...
A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...
This still image of a wolf at night comes from a camera trap, which was part of an experiment investigating wolf behavior in ...
Poetry to explore writing from the woods Hidden in the wood: potash, charcoal, resin, tar. Treasures forgotten. If you don’t recognise it, ...
So we decided to bring the concept into the 21st century: an e-mail time capsule. We built a tool for our website that allowed users to write themselves a message and choose whether they wanted to ...
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A Theory of Dumb

In a paper published last year, Shumailov called this “model collapse,” a process by which an AI system becomes, in his words ...
The discovery that fat is a communicative organ with a role in everything from bone health to mood is forcing a rethink of ...
Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...
A collaboration between SISSA's Physics and Neuroscience groups has taken a step forward in understanding how memories are ...
Missouri mornings shine with sweet rushes as bakeries charm early risers with fresh treats that vanish before the sun climbs!