Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

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Summary: A new study introduces “System 0,” a cognitive framework where artificial intelligence (AI) enhances human thinking by processing vast data, complementing our natural intuition (System 1) and ...

The human race is suffering from success ... when the scholar Robert Burton, writing in The Anatomy of Melancholy, described melancholy as a disease “so grievous, so common”.

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Visitors were also able to examine the role of forensics to work out who the victim was after human bones were found on a construction site. Professor of Anatomy at the University of Sunderland ...

Mars pareidolia strikes again. An image captured by the Perseverance rover in the course of its duties is one of the grisliest yet: it looks, for all the world, like a desiccated, decaying human head, ...