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Find out the multiple ways we classify and ascertain what constitutes intelligence.
By training algorithms on human data, they learn our biases.
We often praise selfless action, but it is even possible?
Here are some of the best books on the rich history, rabid speculations and intriguing fictionalized world of artificial intelligence.
Binary stars and common envelope evolution illustrate messy but “tasty” science.
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.
A new form of light has been discovered.
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?
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 […]
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A new paper explores why women gossip about each other, and identifies some key factors that influence how women choose gossiping targets.
“Can you imagine if they said, ‘Bacon-bacon-bacon?’ Everyone on the line would be like, ‘Where, where?’” former Giants defensive end Justin Tuck has pointed out.
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.
What’s the truth about one of history’s most mythologized order of knights?
Even underground, there would still be a helicopter hovering overhead
Philosophers often get depicted like sages in ivory towers without a practical or human side. A gossip-filled book from the 3rd century can fix that.
Scientists are supposed to reach their conclusions after doing research and weighing the evidence but, in economics, conclusions can come first, with economists supporting a thesis that fits their moral worldview.
What would it be like to experience the 4th dimension?
If the gravity isn’t where the matter is, things get into trouble very, very quickly. The above image, a composite of optical data, X-ray data, and a reconstructed mass map, is […]
The scientific quest for immortality is predicated on the belief that evidence may already exist in the form of Near-Death Experiences and reincarnation.
In this radical view, the universe is a giant supercomputer processing particles as bits.
The study may help us develop a new biomarker for obesity and even type 2 diabetes.
It’s had an impact on both women and men.
Go back to school, Agora style. Philosophy can train us to respond to life’s problems rather than merely react. One such training camp is coming to Baltimore.
DEFCON hackers find it’s really easy to hack U.S. voting machines.
Today, we are in the golden age of meltdowns. More and more of our systems are in the danger zone, but our ability to manage them hasn’t quite caught up.
Last week, the crew found themselves in the mirror Universe. Here’s what science has to say about that. Star Trek: Discovery entered their midseason hiatus on a terrific cliffhanger: they had […]
The same technique is used by crime scene investigators in the FBI.