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Coyote in Yellowstone National Park. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Humans have had relationships with their pets for thousands of years, talking to them, coddling them, and imbuing them with human attributes. But are these animals “thinking,” and do nonhuman animals have the same sorts of feelings that humans have? Most people with pets would say “yes.” What does the science say? In recent decades, researchers have begun to find scientific answers to questions of consciousness for a variety of species. The broad consensus is that many animals are sentient (have conscious thought), that there are different types of cognition, and…

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said in an unclassified report released Thursday that it “appears increasingly likely that a foreign adversary is behind some cases of what officials refer to as “anomalous health incidents” – mysterious illnesses suffered by U.S. national security officials.The House Intelligence Committee concluded in the report that an intelligence community assessment from 2023 of anomalous health incidents (AHI), commonly called Havana Syndrome, “lacked analytic integrity and was highly irregular in its formulation.” That 2023 report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence had deemed it “very unlikely” that a foreign adversary was behind the…

The decentralized artificial intelligence startup Sentient says it’s throwing down the gauntlet to industry giants like OpenAI, Google, Perplexity andThe decentralized artificial intelligence startup Sentient says it’s throwing down the gauntlet to industry giants like OpenAI, Google, Perplexity and Anthropic with the imminent launch of Open Deep Search. Known as ODS, it’s a very soon-to-be open-source AI search framework that utilizes advanced “reasoning” skills to search the web for information and answer complex questions and solve sophisticated problems in the same way as the most intelligent humans do, only it can do it much faster. The company plans to bring…

Instead of some far-off galaxy, a new paper suggests extraterrestrial life might come from underground.The piece, written by researchers from Harvard and Montana Technological University, suggests that unidentified anomalous phenomena, such as UFOs, may already be “present in Earth’s environment.” The key to this explanation lies in the existence of “cryptoterrestrials.” Instead of coming from another dimension or time, cryptoterrestrials may have hidden underground or on the moon or disguised themselves as humans. Until now, common UAP explanations were often classified as either “extratempestrial” — advanced, future humans returning to the past — or “interdimensional,” meaning they arise from creatures…

Since mindfulness is something you can practice at home for free, it often sounds like the perfect tonic for stress and mental health issues.Mindfulness is a type of Buddhist-based meditation in which you focus on being aware of what you’re sensing, thinking, and feeling in the present moment.The first recorded evidence for this, found in India, is over 1,500 years old. The Dharmatrāta Meditation Scripture, written by a community of Buddhists, describes various practices and includes reports of symptoms of depression and anxiety that can occur after meditation.Related: Couples Are More Likely to Share Psychiatric Disorders, But Why?It also details…

When Alien: Earth makes its long-awaited debut tonight on Hulu and FX, it will introduce fans of the Alien franchise to a vast cast of new characters. As you’ll learn as soon as Alien: Earth starts, some of these new characters are going to be ordinary old humans, just like us. Some of these are going to be classic Alien androids known as synthetics. You know, the ones who can imitate human behavior, but bleed milk? Still others will be considered cyborgs, people with nifty augmentations that make them more powerful. Most important to Alien: Earth of all, though, is…

Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories President Trump is expected to welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the White House today, along with several key European leaders. The meeting comes just days after Trump’s one-on-one summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska to discuss the end of the war in Ukraine. Trump is expected to urge Ukraine to accept a deal that would require it to give up territory, but he will…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House voted Thursday to ban entities from China and four other perceived adversarial countries from purchasing land in the state, citing a need to protect farms from the possibility of falling under hostile control.The Missouri legislation, which now heads to the Senate, is one of several similar bills moving through state capitols this year amid international tensions that were peaked by the trek of a Chinese balloon across the U.S.”The balloon was just over this Capitol” in February, Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher said Thursday. “We have to protect Missouri sovereignty, and we have…

Credit: Unsplash+. One possibility to explain the constants of nature is that there’s more than one universe. That we live in a multiverse, with each different universe “sampling” different values of the constants. There are a few extremely hypothetical ideas in physics that can lead to the multiverse. One is through the concept of eternal inflation, where the very early universe never ended its period of rapid expansion, and that different portions of the overall multiverse pinched off, so to speak, to create their own bubble universes. Another path to the multiverse comes from string theory, where extra spatial dimensions…

There’s always some truth in fiction, and now is about the time to get a step ahead of sci-fi dystopias and determine what the risk in machine sentience can be for humans.   Although people have long pondered the future of intelligent machinery, such questions have become all the more pressing with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learningT. These machines resemble human interactions: they can help problem solve, create content, and even carry on conversations. For fans of science fiction and dystopian novels, a looming issue could be on the horizon: what if these machines develop a…