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As individuals, we scientists are all flawed. But the enterprise of science rises above our individual shortcomings. The enterprise of science is perhaps the greatest achievement in all of human […]
Is this the real life or is it just fantasy? And does it really even matter?
Technology holds the promise of a better future, but our footprint on the planet threatens to undo all our dreams and progress. It’s pretty easy to look at the world […]
Explore McLuhan’s theory on print culture and its influential hold over civilization.
Then again, maybe the study is fake news too.
From psychology to neuroscience, what we believe is not nearly as relevant as why we do.
Renowned scientists and technologists who’ve passed away in 2018.
These photos of scientific heroes and accomplishments inspire awe and curiosity.
In more than a dozen countries as far apart as Portugal and Russia, ‘Smith’ is the most popular occupational surname
It’s hard to quantify what it means to be good, but this framework takes a stab at breaking down what makes people behave nicely.
They fed it data from “the darkest corners of Reddit forums.”
Computer art does not rival human art. Rather, art created by artificial intelligence is at once a compliment to the human brain, and a corollary to the achievements of oil paintings and classical music.
The Dr. Data Show is a new web series that breaks the mold for data science infotainment, captivating the planet with short webisodes that cover the very best of machine learning and predictive analytics.
A new study asserts that liberals and conservatives alike equally disdain hateful comments online, but only when they’re written by women.
Find out the multiple ways we classify and ascertain what constitutes intelligence.
Depends on how you define it: Digging in to the science of what it means to be cool.
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Sometimes conspiracy theories turn out to be true, like the one about how the CIA tried to use LSD to find a mind-control drug.
We often praise selfless action, but it is even possible?
By training algorithms on human data, they learn our biases.
Binary stars and common envelope evolution illustrate messy but “tasty” science.
Here are some of the best books on the rich history, rabid speculations and intriguing fictionalized world of artificial intelligence.
History will remember Stephen Hawking for his many contributions to cosmology and astrophysics, but his beliefs about the future could soon prove just as important.
The Thucydides Trap leads us to believe a U.S.-China war is inevitable. But is a 2,400-year-old school of thought really what the U.S. should base its foreign policy on?
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With huge suites of data, we can extract plenty of signals where we know to look for them. Everything else? That’s where AI comes in. At the dawn of the 20th […]
A new form of light has been discovered.
A new paper explores why women gossip about each other, and identifies some key factors that influence how women choose gossiping targets.
We are discovering that the subtleties of our psychological lives are being managed by specific modules in our brains.
In line with his own ingrained assumptions, the standard ones of Victorian England, Darwin maintained that female inferiority is an inescapable consequence of nature.