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From machines to animals, there are many kinds of possible minds.
The AI test can be done every night at home while the person is asleep, without even touching their body.
Who — or what — really controls your mind?
It’s time for Tetris.
At the turn of the millennium, a physicist fooled the global scientific community with the greatest discovery that never existed.
To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.
Generative AI — driven by large language models — has the potential to destroy or supercharge most businesses. Now is the time to pivot.
Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman just invested $100 million into the company.
Meaningful pictures are assembled from meaningless noise.
From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.
Life is the only physical system that actively uses information.
Eric Olson — CEO and co-founder of Consensus — takes his cues from the university of legendary coaches.
A healthy lifestyle even protects those who are genetically predisposed to depression.
What began as an annoyance ended as a Nobel Prize-winning discovery about the Big Bang and the origin of the Universe.
Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.
Cryo-electron tomography, or cryo-ET, is the future of cell research.
In the future, people may look back with horror at how humans treated AI in the 21st century.
Living is about staying busy.
A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do.
According to author and entrepreneur Steven Kotler, at some point this century, we will confront the prospect of immortality.
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Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.
In 2023, data from the James Webb Space Telescope soured hopes that TRAPPIST-1 c had an atmosphere. That disappointment might have been premature.
Explore how the study of exoplanets is transforming our understanding of ocean formation.
The whole isn’t greater than the sum of its parts; that’s a flaw in our thinking. Non-reductionism requires magic, not merely science.
Biology plays an important role in emotional reactions, but neuroscientist Kristen A. Lindquist posits that our culture is just as influential.
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A college education currently provides roughly a 10% rate of return, beating the long-term performance of equities.
Will we ever unravel the mystery of consciousness? Two academics made a 25-year bet on it. The scientist lost.
Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we’ll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.