An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence. Save this story Save this story Even the smartest artificial intelligence ...

Brumation is a hibernation-like state that can occur in some reptiles when the environmental temperatures get colder and the hours of daylight decrease. While an animal’s environment would trigger ...

Chris Impey has received funding from NASA, NSF, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Templeton Foundation. If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which ...

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Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Two baseballs for a ...

The green turtle’s remarkable recovery from near extinction is being hailed as a major conservation success. Once heavily hunted for their meat and decorative shells, these long-distance sea ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Uncle Mike’s Bake Shoppe on East Mason Street is seeking answers after its beloved turtle statue was vandalized overnight. On Friday morning, the beloved northeast Wisconsin ...

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CHICAGO—Krystyna Kurth likes to begin her tours of the river cutting past the city’s post-industrial area with a word association game. Kurth, coordinator of conservation action at the Shedd Aquarium, ...

Fast animals often steal attention, but the slow ones hold a quiet fascination. From the ocean depths to forest canopies, survival sometimes depends less on speed and more on stillness. Is the sea ...

An endangered sea turtle was returned to the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, months after he was found stranded on a beach and suffering from hypothermia last winter. Named Elton, the juvenile Kemp’s ...

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