Even lifelong technologists and AI researchers like myself were genuinely surprised by the speed and impact of generative AI.

The media sells bad news, but scientific evidence shows that we are making progress toward a greener planet.

A Cambridge Ph.D. student has solved a grammatical problem that has befuddled Sanskrit scholars since the 5th century BC.

If aliens are driven mostly by biological imperatives, humanity could be in big trouble if we ever meet technologically advanced beings.

You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?

For college students, it’s the early afternoon.

To prevent overloading the memory system, the brain may have a mechanism that tosses out certain types of memories.

It’s spooky, and it’s happening all around us. And inside us.

Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that we often don’t truly want to obtain what we think we desire.

2022 was a year full of scientific discoveries and the dawn of the JWST. But Hubble’s still going after 32 years. Here’s the amazing proof!

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Universe, explained by physicist Sean Carroll.

Merely 256 genetically engineered mice could make an island’s pest population go extinct.

2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.

It should work for future variants, too.

Goodbye, Arabica? Learn to love Liberica.

What you see is what you hear.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?

Our impulse to seek out agreement is stifling us, says world debate champion Bo Seo.

Every proton contains three quarks: two up and one down. But charm quarks, heavier than the proton itself, have been found inside. How?

Nearshoring may be the manufacturing model of the future.

A concept known as “wave-particle duality” famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter — including you.

Dead whales inspire a way to find extraterrestrial life on Mars.

Particles are everywhere, including particles from space that stream through the human body. Here’s how they prove Einstein’s relativity.

A real-life nightmare.

Its implications go well beyond the Earth itself, affecting even the future of space travel.

Retired astronaut Ron Garan believes that before we can begin solving our problems, we must understand our interrelatedness through the “orbital perspective.”

What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him.

The research could aid the development of more effective treatments for conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). 

Nuclear fusion has long been seen as the future of energy. As the NIF now passes the breakeven point, how close are we to our ultimate goal?