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Physicists have increasingly begun to view life as information-processing “states of matter” that require special consideration.

In the international competition, people with physical disabilities put state-of-the-art devices to the test as they race to complete the tasks of everyday life.

Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past the limits of our atmosphere.

“How long someone thinks about [a] problem is a really good proxy of how humans behave.”

If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.

Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.

Memory takes effort, and our brains know it.

“Part of what’s happening now in the world is tension between organic animals and an inorganic digital system which is increasingly controlling and shaping the entire world.”

A new technique that can automatically classify phases of physical systems could help scientists investigate novel materials.

What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.

Hackers are in an arms race with cyber defenders. Will AI tip the balance?

Mike Bechtel, chief futurist with Deloitte Consulting LLP, joins Big Think for a wide-ranging look at what’s next — and why.

Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.

Philosophy is often seen as little more than armchair speculation. This is a shame, as philosophy often has helped science reach new heights.

A crowdsourced “final exam” for AI promises to test LLMs like never before. Here’s how the idea, and its implementation, dooms us to fail.

More accurate uncertainty estimates could help users decide about how and when to use machine-learning models in the real world.

The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer’s suggestive simulation.

Space weather poses a tremendous threat to all satellites, knocking all computer systems offline. Is that a recipe for Kessler syndrome?

When one path is blocked, a new one must be paved. How Einstein, Heisenberg and Gödel used constraints to make life-changing discoveries:

It will be immensely difficult for the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains to protect their competitive edge if they do not pursue a radical change.

We need more data centers for AI. Developers are getting creative about where to build them.

Behind America’s hunt for a superior semiconductor.

Science fiction movies capture a classic human flaw: getting the future mostly wrong.

Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to “speak.”

Step back from the AI maelstrom and explore Lem’s “Summa Technologiae” for a detached look at technology’s role in human evolution.

The cat-and-mouse game between China and the world’s semiconductor companies is already having enormous consequences.

Common knowledge says the maximum size of a PDF is as big as 40% of Germany — but that’s a gross underestimate.

Journalist Steven Kotler on digital immortality and the tech that could keep us “alive,” forever.

Propofol, a drug commonly used for general anesthesia, derails the brain’s normal balance between stability and excitability.

A prolonged strike could cost the economy between $500 million to $4.5 billion per day.