How the Rule-Breaking Octopus Is Rewriting the Evolution of Intelligence

Was This Fossil Creature the First Right-Hander Ever?

A half a billion years ago, this organism preferred to bend to the right The post Was This Fossil Creature the First Right-Hander Ever? appeared first on Nautilus.

What Makes Humans Stupid

It takes intelligence to get things spectacularly wrong. An essay on our undoing. The post What Makes Humans Stupid appeared first on Nautilus.

Cacti spines, snake fangs, snail love darts – oh my! How function drives the evolution of nature’s puncture tools

What do cacti spines and wasp stingers have in common? What about snail genitalia and shark teeth?

The tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology

The extraordinary life and quiet death of the world's largest iceberg

Forty years after breaking away from Antarctica, the frozen colossus known as A23a died as it lived: drifting around the bottom of the globe, fascinating ardent observers, and offering scientists critical new insights about our living ocean.

Is recursive self‑improvement the dawning of AI superintelligence?

AI systems can now improve themselves by themselves. Is this the dawn of machine superintelligence?