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A popular idea suggests a link between big brains and a rich social life, but octopuses don't fit the pattern, which suggests ...

Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind—and whether today’s systems qualify.

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Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...

Clairvoyant Baba Vanga, long believed by devotees to have foreseen events such as 9/11 and the COVID-19 pandemic, predicted alien visitors and the outbreak of World War III for this year. The blind ...

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