A cyborg may look conscious, but is it? Many advanced artificial intelligence projects say they are working toward building a conscious machine, based on the idea that brain functions merely encode and process multisensory information. The assumption goes, then, that…
SAN FRANCISCO — On the sea bottom off the coast of central California lies a vast field of mysterious pockmarks. The field spans about 500 square miles (1,300 square kilometers), and there are approximately 5,200 of these strange pits, which…
The scientists on the expedition hope that two specialized arrays of metal detectors, towed by snowmobiles, will reveal iron meteorites from the early solar system just below the icy surface. Scientists are scouring the remote Antarctic ice cap for rare…
So-called “aurora chasers” in Alberta, Canada, photographed an unusual light in the night sky — dubbed “Steve” — and brought it to the attention of astronomers at the University of Calgary and at NASA. SAN FRANCISCO — An oddball sky…
Replicas of two historic viking long-boats at Lofoten Islands, Norway. When archaeologists excavated an unusual Viking grave site in Norway, they dug up two bodies … along with the remnants of two massive boats. After hundreds of years underground, only…
A new study has shown that people who regularly eat chilli peppers can reduce their risk of early death by