The researchers observed the behavior of a dolphin in shallow waters on the southern Great Barrier Reef over a four-year period, both through snorkeling and video. Overall, the dolphin stole food 11 ...

Imagine scooping up a stray kitten, raising it in your own home, and then later discovering it’s actually a feral jungle cat. That’s what happened to one Bolivian man, who decided the pet he’d been ...

Toad smoking has been called “the Everest of psychedelics.” Over the past decade, this practice has “gone exponential,” a clinical psychologist who studies psychedelics tells journalist Kimon de Greef ...

Antonio Damasio has been working to solve the conundrum of consciousness almost since modern neuroscience first began to tackle the problem over three decades ago. In the early 1990s, the Portuguese ...

Of course, the models that most AI engineers seem to be most worried about are not the ones that are currently available to consumers. But one might presume that the companies that make chatbots could ...

Unfortunately we don’t live in that world, and many of us will spend our later years fighting off sarcopenia, or the loss of muscle mass as we age. To make matters worse, this gradual decline in ...

The next time you’re getting a quote to have some work done to your house, here’s something to have in reserve when you’re told how long it’ll take: A new study suggests the moon could’ve formed in as ...

We all love rewards, but they often come packaged with risks. The most mundane decisions we make every day can involve such trade-offs. Should you hit snooze on the alarm for an extra few minutes of ...

Whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded has been the subject of debate for years. While the scientific consensus has shifted decidedly in the warm-blooded direction, just how warm their ...

What do cavemen and NASA researchers have in common? Both of their work benefits from the decorrelation stretch technique—a method of image processing originally developed by NASA scientists to tease ...

What you see above is Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola, which translates from Hawaiian to “The Twin Spirits Pulling Together Creating Life.” Featured Video It’s a beautiful description of the image, ...

Led by primate researchers at the University of Barcelona in Spain and the Jane Goodall Institute in Senegal, the study focused on wild western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in the savanna of ...