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Trees talk and share resources right under our feet, using a fungal network nicknamed the Wood Wide Web. Some plants use the system to support their offspring, while others hijack it to sabotage their rivals.

Card: How might the universe end? Michio Kaku: Well, when we try to look at the whole universe itself — many people ask the question, «Well Professor, how do you know — how do you know that the universe is expanding? How do you know that it came from a big bang? How can you […]

Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. The Turing Award-winning computer scientist pioneered the field of distributed systems, where multiple components on different networks coordinate to achieve a common objective. (Internet searches, cloud computing and artificial intelligence all involve orchestrating legions of powerful computing machines to work together.) In the early 1980s, Lamport […]

Deep in the Amazon jungle, a parasitic fungus called cordyceps infect ants and other insects in order to reproduce. Mind control fungus.

Cockatoos have been documented using multiple tools to retrieve cashew nuts stored away inside a box. This ability to transport and use toolsets has only been previously reported in chimpanzees, our closest relatives. The researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria, captured this footage, displaying the technical cognition and decision making of cockatoos.

If we could fully map the inner workings of our brain, we could understand disease, consciousness, and what it is that makes us human. Only catch? There are more connections in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way. So, how close are we to fully mapping the brain?

As long as people have been alive, they’ve wanted to stay alive. But unlike finding the fountain of youth or becoming a vampire, uploading your brain to a computer or the cloud might actually be possible. Theoretically, we already know how to do it, and Elon Musk is even trying a brain implant with Neuralink. […]

In an interview, WSJ’s Joanna Stern spoke with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about the new tools and how AI is going to change search. (Oh, and Clippy!) Tech Things With Joanna Stern Everything is now a tech thing. In creative and humorous videos, WSJ senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern explains and reviews the products, […]

Joe Rogan & Lex Fridman discuss OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT. They talk about how good it is at mimicking human responses and how much better it’s getting in the future. Lex Fridman is a scientist and researcher in the fields of artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles and host of «The Lex Fridman Podcast.»

For over a hundred years scientists have been putting ants under the microscope – but the ants still managed to keep some secrets. Now researchers have spotted something no-one had noticed before – a kind of ‘milk’ being secreted by juvenile ants in the pupal stage. The strange fluid is nutritious and experiments showed it […]

Can trees really save us from climate change? For eons, nature has relied on photosynthesis as a big way to keep carbon dioxide levels from getting out of control. But as we have put more carbon into the air, we’ve also cut down many of the forests we need to suck that carbon up. So […]