OpenAI claims that its new flagship model, GPT-5, marks “a significant step along the path to AGI” – that is, the artificial general intelligence that AI bosses and self-proclaimed experts often claim ...

Chemicals may be turning female birds into males in the wild and the phenomenon might be more common than we think.

One afternoon on the coast of Hokkaido, a small rubber duck bobbed in the waves, anchored to a seaside rock. It wasn’t tethered with screws or cement. Instead, it clung there because of a transparent, ...

The internet has rewritten the rules for how we work, how we shop, and even how we fall in love. In the mid-20th century, ...

The bone container is a hollowed-out sheep or goat femur intentionally sealed at one end with a birch-bark tar plug. It ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand suggests that people who deliberately choose a ...

Now, researchers at University College London and their collaborators have engineered a new class of indoor solar cell that ...

The 5,700-year-old remains bear chilling signs of slaughter and consumption.

Because the jet is aimed almost directly toward Earth, its brightness is amplified “by a factor of 30 or more,” said ...

A team of scientists at King’s College London thinks there might be another way. They’ve found that keratin — the same ...

The “Herring Lassies,” also known as “Herring Girls” or “Scots Fisher Lassies,” represented a substantial and dynamic female workforce that moved around and followed the herring. They came from the ...

But between the Roman era and the first sustained arrival of Africans, most enslaved, during the Tudor era (early 16th ...