The debate over artificial superintelligence (ASI) can tend toward extremes, with predictions that it will either save humanity or destroy it. E. Glen Weyl has a different perspective: Superintelligence is already here, and it has been for thousands of years.
Speaking Nov. 19 at the Berkman…
When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out in early Chinese farming settlements since the Neolithic Period.
Now, a sweeping new DNA study has confirmed what earlier studies had suspected: that those felines…
Brace yourself for a hot story about plant sex.
Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads — an ancient lineage of seed plants — heat their reproductive organs to attract beetle pollinators, which in turn evolved specialized infrared sensors. First male cycads warm their pollen…
Italian authorities have apprehended 34 “tomb raiders” suspected of plundering ancient treasures from archaeological sites across Sicily…
Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed a significant early Christian artefact: a fresco depicting Jesus as the “Good Shepherd,” styled with…
Italian authorities have apprehended 34 “tomb raiders” suspected of plundering ancient treasures from archaeological sites across Sicily…
“In general, cannibalism of offspring is super widespread,” says Aneesh Bose, a behavioral ecologist at the Swedish University…
Such endorsements abound online. Other reta boosters also flag its alleged ability to reduce cravings for drugs and alcohol. (Some clinical literature has suggested the potential of GLP-1-type drugs in the treatment of addiction, attributable to their ability to rewire dopamine signaling in the…
