Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Humans have been scouring the sky for alien life for centuries, and we’ve had, let’s face it, little success. Proposed reasons for that range from the existentially bleak to the profoundly terrifying ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a federal court Tuesday that the U.S. cannot locate 137 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador in March 2025.

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

So if we’re right, each former human is now essentially a radio transmitter and receiver. One plurb sends out a signal that ...

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Warner Bros may be for sale, but the studio's acclaimed hits 'Sinners' and 'One Battle After Another' are expected to ...

You'd think measuring an engine's displacement would be simple, but there's a long history of trying to figure out how to categorize the Wankel.

Dario Amodei warns that superhuman AI arriving within two years could trigger mass unemployment, bioterrorism and authoritarian control, unless humanity gets serious about the risks right now.

Silver’s new startup, Ineffable Intelligence, will focus on developing “superintelligence” using the same AI methods that led to Google DeepMind breakthroughs like AlphaGo.

Leila Turner-Scott reads a conversation her son Sam had with ChatGPT on the day of his death while at her home in Dripping Springs, Texas, where she moved following his fatal overdose. Turner-Scott is ...