A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species. These queen Iberian harvester ants (Messor ibericus) are ...

After players find and unlock Ange as a Merchant in Path of Exile 2, they’ll find they’re unable to put up any items for sale in her in-game storefront, as the game asks players to purchase a ...

A machine-learning algorithm spotted signs of “covert consciousness” in coma patients—in some cases, days before doctors could do so “We were trying to find a way to quantify how conscious these ...

The series Fair Observer’s Devil’s Dictionary has been running since October 2017. In this final contribution, we return to the very roots of the project: how language, which conveys meaning, can be ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate AI chatbots to better understand the productive and deceptive ways in which they “reason.” Together with ChatGPT, we have been analyzing the quality of OpenAI CEO ...