For Anil Seth, another prominent neuroscientist, consciousness is a “controlled hallucination” because we never experience objective reality, whether externally in the world or within our minds. The ...

Octopuses already exist in a strange corner of the animal world, with soft bodies, problem-solving brains, and the ability to ...

The blanket octopus uses venomous man o’ war tentacles as weapons, doubling its reach and surviving in the open ocean.

Researchers at Penn State have developed a new fabrication method that allows a programmable ...

Cash has long dominated variation margin (VM) for uncleared derivatives, but that dominance is being tested. Rising funding costs, regulatory pressures and repeated episodes of market stress are ...

Imagine you had the power to take any shape you wanted. And we mean any shape, from changing the way you look, all the way to changing into a different species! The idea of shapeshifting has ...

Despite the prevalence of synthetic materials across different industries and scientific fields, most are developed to serve ...

The photographer crisscrossed the continent in the 1950s as the idea of a united Europe was taking shape. By Andrew Dickson Reporting from Paris In September 1955, the French art publisher Verve ...

Researchers unveil octopus-inspired smart skin that hides images, changes shape, and encodes data via 4D printing.

They don’t march in the streets or storm the polls, but a new breed of AI-controlled personas could be the next big threat to democracy. According to a new policy forum paper in Science, Swarms of AI ...

Behavior is at the heart of nearly every challenge in the workplace, from leadership and fair decisions to high performance and AI adoption. But how should organizations go about influencing behavior?