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University of Oxford professor Tim Coulson told London-based business publication The European that the octopus is one of the ...

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A Conditional AI Safety Treaty can help prevent runaway AI and President-elect Trump should embrace the idea, writes Otto ...

On a local level, heavy metal and chemical pollution from unmaintained factories and infrastructure will exert pressures on ...

Scientists project that Earth's continents are slowly drifting towards each other and will merge to form a massive ...

Oxford boffins say the species likely to take over the world after humans is the octopus. The eight-limbed creatures are primed to become the dominant force on Earth should humanity die out, according ...

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

The marine invertebrates are said to possess the "physical and mental attributes necessary" to evolve into the next ...