Evolution repeatedly hit upon this solution simply because it works.
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Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
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In the name of fighting horrific crimes, Apple threatens to open Pandora's box.
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Invisible cloaks. Ghost imaging. Scientists are manipulating light in ways that were once only science fiction.
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Realism in science cannot be completely unmoored from human experience. Otherwise, realism ends up tortured with unreal paradoxes.
The acceptance of our cosmic loneliness and the rarity of our planet is a wakeup call.
Memes communicate complex ideas quickly and efficiently, but that’s precisely what makes them so dangerous.
Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM.
As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat the turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, new approaches can help.
The 557-million-year-old specimen challenges the theory that animal body plans were laid out in the Cambrian explosion.
Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.
Maybe our understanding of quantum entanglement is incomplete, or maybe there is something fundamentally unique about consciousness.
It's common knowledge that syncing your circadian rhythm to a natural light-dark cycle could improve your health and well-being.
Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble.
43% of people think they can get a sense of someone's personality by their picture.
Has lockdown made your pet extra clingy?
In all mammals, there are two brain pathways for processing information from the eyes: an evolutionarily ancient one and a more modern one.