The Happy Mondays singer reckons the world around us isn’t as natural as we believe and that little green men have been ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

A brain parasite already living inside one-third of humanity is now the subject of alarming new research, and disclosure advocates say the classified files Trump just ordered to be released may hold ...

Following in the wake of the original Golden Records, a new deep-space delivery hopes to introduce a ‘mostly harmless’ humanity to alien life ...

Ragdoll cats are full of stunning beauty, and Finn is showing off just how pretty he is! Watch him pose adorably for the ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

AI such as ChatGPT is giving mental health advise to users. What impact will this have over the long term? Will society be better off or worse off, say 5 years from now?

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

The resulting outcome is that you have A.I. systems that have learned what it means to solve a problem that takes quite a while and requires them running into dead ends and needing to reset themselves ...

The 2000s gave us some of the best sci-fi movies of all time. We've picked the top of the crop and ranked them too. Did your ...

For about 15 minutes, “Cold Storage” manages to balance on a tonal tightrope, showing off as tense yet fun. The audience ...

Casimir cavities are mysterious spaces between microscopic metal plates in a vacuum. Areas of diminished energy between the plates cause them to push toward each other, as if trying to fill the ...