(via Minute Earth) There are several ways to think about ancestry, and all of them suggest you have fewer unique ancestors ...

Jade from Up and Atom shows off an apparent physics paradox.

A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general intelligence”. On December 20, OpenAI’s o3 ...

A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general intelligence”. On December 20, OpenAI’s o3 ...

Do you taste something bitter when you hear the right word? Maybe you see a flash of a certain color instead. If so, you ...

A drug recently approved to prevent migraine may start working right away, according to a study published in the December 23, ...

At a Neolithic settlement on the Danish island Funen dating back 5,500 years, archaeologists have discovered both grinding ...

A research team led by Professor Jihyun Hong from the Department of Battery Engineering Department of the Graduate Institute ...

(via Veritasium) LSD-fiend, surfer, maverick — Kary Mullis might be the weirdest person ever to win the Nobel Prize.

A recent investigation of human remains found in the UK’s Cheddar Gorge has once again brought a particularly unsavory aspect ...

What does a baby know about right and wrong? A foundational finding in moral psychology suggested that even infants have a ...

Humans may think we have the market cornered on bizarre sexual acts, but the animal kingdom has come up with some mating rituals that put us to shame.