What is the nature of consciousness?(quantamagazine.org)

24 points by indigoabstract 3 years ago | 32 comments

A DNA ‘parasite’ may have fragmented our genes(quantamagazine.org)

139 points by theafh 3 years ago | 67 comments

Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism(quantamagazine.org)

46 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 8 comments

The ocean teems with networks of interconnected bacteria(quantamagazine.org)

118 points by abe94 1 year ago | 18 comments

Does Form Shape Function?(quantamagazine.org)

21 points by lentoutcry 1 year ago | 5 comments

A mutation turned ants into parasites in one generation(quantamagazine.org)

137 points by theafh 3 years ago | 26 comments

Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike(quantamagazine.org)

112 points by pseudolus 1 month ago | 49 comments

Quanta Magazine article arguing that while biology may not rely on quantum effects, the mathematics describing biological systems resembles quantum math.

Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations(nhmu.utah.edu)

438 points by astronads 10 months ago | 263 comments

Natural History Museum of Utah article on a newly identified hallucinogenic mushroom from Yunnan markets, known locally as Jian shou qing, that causes fairytale-like visions.

Fish have a brain microbiome – could humans have one too?(quantamagazine.org)

318 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 122 comments

Quanta Magazine article on the discovery that fish have a brain microbiome and the controversial possibility that humans might too.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS [video](media.ccc.de)

361 points by cookiengineer 1 year ago | 132 comments

Video recording of Matthias Frielingsdorf's 38C3 talk on how commercial spyware like Pegasus and Predator targeting iOS has evolved.

Why human societies developed so little during 300k years(woodfromeden.substack.com)

391 points by elsewhen 3 years ago | 384 comments

A Substack essay by Tove K on Wood From Eden arguing why human societies developed so little over 300,000 years, linking stagnation to violence.