A female (top) and male sperm whaleFranco Banfi/BIOSPHOTO/Alamy We have known for decades that sperm whales are highly intelligent and social. They are the largest of the toothed whales, among the deepest divers, have the biggest brains of any organism...
Face: the future Should you take at face value a science paper that suggests that your face is the result of a “self-fulfilling prophecy process”? A study called “Can names shape facial appearance?” claims it “probes the origins” of a...
Alan Turing was many things: a wartime hero, a computer scientist who pre-dated computers, the father of artificial intelligence and a persecuted gay man. Now, 70 years after his death, he will also become a museum exhibit in chatbot form....
An artist’s impression of a rover exploring the surface of MarsMARK GARLICK/Science Photo Library/Alamy The Secret Life of the UniverseNathalie Cabrol (Simon & Schuster (UK); Scribner (US)) David Bowie wasn’t the first or last to wonder if there is life on Mars. The...
Experiments in a wind tunnel have revealed why the sling action bowling technique made famous by Sri Lankan cricketer Lasith Malinga is so effective at hoodwinking whoever is batting Source link...
AI companies hope that feeding ever more data to their models will continue to boost performance, eventually leading to human-level intelligence. Behind this hope is the "transformer", a key breakthrough in AI, but what happens if it fails to deliver?...
Sometimes your gut feelings lead you astray—particularly in mathematics, in which one constantly comes across results that seem impossible. For example, infinity does not always equal infinity, and tortoises may outpace human athletes—at least from a certain mathematical point of...
Some people in a coma seem to be able to imagine themselves swimming or walkingKENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images One in five people in a coma may be “locked in”, meaning they are aware of their surroundings but unable to...
August 14, 20243 min readStunning Space Station Video Shows Glimmering Northern Lights from AboveCoronal mass ejections from the sun sparked dazzling auroras that were visible from the ground and from spaceBy Saima S. IqbalNASA astronaut Matthew Dominick took this photo...
Ocean temperatures have been rising steadily for decades, with our seas having absorbed much of the excess atmospheric heat generated by our relentless burning of fossil fuels. But in March 2023, almost overnight, they suddenly skyrocketed. Temperatures have since remained...
