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Reduction is an approach that has been successful in science but is not itself synonymous with “science.”
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
If a large asteroid strikes Earth, it has the potential to release an enormous amount of energy, leading to local or even global catastrophes. The strike that led to the […]
Even the most brilliant mind in history couldn’t have achieved all he did without significant help from the minds of others.
Because of our ability to think about thinking, “the gap between ape and man is immeasurably greater than the one between amoeba and ape.”
Researchers discover black holes that violate the uniqueness theorem and have “gravitational hair.”
Children with pre-existing mental health issues thrived during the early phase of the pandemic.
Physicists create quantum entanglement, making two distant objects behave as one.
In some situations, asking “what if everyone did that?” is a common strategy for judging whether an action is right or wrong.
Sometimes the value of soft skills feels almost secretive—like some scrap of knowledge handed down through an ancient society of corporate recruiters. Of course, that’s not the case or that’s […]
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New research shows that experiencing an opposite-sex body in virtual reality impacted the subject’s gender identity.
When Tal Golesworthy was told he was at risk of his aorta bursting, he wasn’t impressed with the surgery on offer – so he came up with his own idea.
Do you sound friendly? Hostile? And which voice would be more likely to buy something?
The Google-owned company developed a system that can reliably predict the 3D shapes of proteins.
It is often assumed that AI will become so advanced that the technology will be able to do anything. In reality, there are limits.
Researchers devise an effective new predictive tool for maritime first-responders.
You don’t need to completely automate a job to fundamentally change it.
Scientists have long puzzled over how Mars, a cold and dry planet, was once warm enough to support liquid water.
A theoretical physicist returns to Penrose and Hameroff’s theory of “quantum consciousness.”
Climate change and artificial intelligence pose substantial — and possibly existential — problems for humanity to solve. Can we?
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?
Can we stop a rogue AI by teaching it ethics? That might be easier said than done.
They did really well considering joysticks are not designed for oral use.
In his new book, “The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power,” Jacob Helberg outlines the brewing cyberwar between Western democracies and autocracies like China and Russia.
Cryptocurrencies are digital currencies that use online ledgers, called blockchains, to record transactions. These blockchains are decentralized, meaning the permanent record is not stored in one location but exists on […]
Researchers discover how to use light instead of electricity to advance artificial intelligence.
German researchers have just solved the mystery of how these substances work.