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“When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset.”

We may be on the brink of finally seeing human-level intelligence in an AI — thanks to robots.

The simulation hypothesis is fun to talk about, but believing it requires an act of faith.

Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.

The “little red dots” were touted as being too massive, too early, for cosmology to explain. With new knowledge, everything adds up.

HaptX gloves provide high-fidelity touch feedback of virtual spaces (and they look cool, too).

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

Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.

With so many early galaxies of unexpectedly large brightnesses, JWST surprised us all. Here’s how scientists made sense of what we see.

These high-mass, rapidly star-forming galaxies have called modern cosmology into question. But hi-res simulations show no tension at all.

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

It is little more than a fancy excuse for escapist fantasizing.

Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.

How do normal matter and dark matter separate by so much when galaxy clusters collide? Astronomers find the surprising, unexpected answer.

There was a time where no starlight was visible throughout the entire cosmos. That time was short-lived: shorter than astronomers imagined.

Galaxies don’t simply feed their central supermassive black holes, but the activity generated inside affects the entire galaxy and more.

Blissful ignorance can be a rational choice.

Well-preserved ancient plants and other finds at the Clarkia fossil beds hint at what kind of evidence any Martian life may have left behind.

One MIT-trained poet spent nine months trying to find out.

A new method of mapping migration factors in erratic movements and changing climate.

Kurzweil predicts that AI will combine with biotechnology to defeat degenerative diseases this decade. Then things will get really interesting.

This research team is working out how to detect extraterrestrial cells in the liquid water ocean hidden beneath Enceladus’s icy crust.

Even with the best technology imaginable, you’d probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.

Chemical changes inside Mars’ core caused it to lose its magnetic field. This, in turn, caused it to lose its oceans. But how?

Time to rewrite our understanding of structural engineering.

Experimental neuroscientist Patrick McNamara on how we can harness spiritual experiences to explore alternate realities in our minds, and transform our models of the self.

Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can’t? No. But if they can calculate faster, that’s quantum supremacy.

Uploading your mind is not a pathway to immortality. Instead, it will create a possibly hostile digital doppelgänger.

“The surface is no longer a record of every impact the moon has ever had, because at some point, impacts were erasing previous impacts.”

Can two planets stably share the same orbit? Conventional wisdom says no, but a look at Saturn’s moons might tell a different story.