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A.I. churches are springing up, even if just online, yet they’re speaking a very old language.

Artificial intelligence has the capability to far surpass our intelligence in a relatively short period of time, but we have to lay the right groundwork now while we still can.

The accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the greatest puzzles today. Could this out-of-the-box idea explain it without dark energy? When it comes to our quest to understand the […]

Are you a polymath, too?

Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser, founders of the popular blog, have landed at ORBITER.

The buildings of the future will be fluid, impermanent, and in constant transformation. But will human nature catch up?

By training algorithms on human data, they learn our biases.

Device uses ultrafast “frequency hopping” and data encryption to protect wireless signals from being intercepted and jammed.rn

A controversial article from Forbes argues that libraries, once an important public resource, are outdated, costly and should be replaced by Amazon book stores.

The entire device is about the size of an ice chest, and the temperature it achieves will be 10 billion times colder than the vacuum of space.

But we shouldn’t give up on direct detection. Here’s why. Dark matter is not only the most abundant form of matter in the Universe, it’s also the most mysterious. Whereas all […]

Among the hundreds and thousands of codes that have been broken by cryptographers, the government, and even self-taught amateurs tinkering around at home, there remain a small few of codes and devices which have yet to be cracked by anyone.

At ground zero, Trinitite, the green, glassy substance found in the area, is still radioactive and must not be picked up. The Trinity Site was where the first atomic bomb […]

Bernardo Kastrup proposes a new ontology he calls “idealism” built on panpsychism, the idea that everything in the universe contains consciousness. He solves problems with this philosophy by adding a new suggestion: The universal mind has dissociative identity disorder.

Being creative gives you a natural predisposition to schizophrenia, according to a massive new study by the British Journal of Psychiatry.

What’s the difference between VR and AR? Find out what they are and what these emerging technologies are being used for around the world.

Aurora 21 will help the US keep pace among the other nations who own the fastest supercomputers. Scientists plan on using it to map the connectome of the human brain.

Find out the multiple ways we classify and ascertain what constitutes intelligence.

When Mark Zuckerberg told Congress Facebook would use artificial intelligence to detect fake newsposted on the social media site, he wasn’t particularly specific about what that meant. Given my own […]

Christine Lagorio-Chafkin spent six years writing the definitive history of Reddit.

When scientists claim that an unexplained phenomenon might be due to aliens, they’re giving up on science. Whenever science discovers a new, unexpected phenomenon, it represents a tremendous opportunity to learn […]

Optical computers would be extremely fast, more energy efficient, and could store far more information than electronic ones.

Forget the spectacular explosions we create here on Earth. The Universe outdoes us in every way imaginable. Forget mere chemical reactions; in space, matter-energy conversion creates unprecedentedly powerful explosive events. […]

It will be the most extreme test of Einstein’s General Relativity ever. And we already have the data. With every year that goes by, the total amount of knowledge that humanity […]

Neural network learns speech patterns that predict depression in clinical interviews.

What would it cost to move some of the world’s most famous landmarks to new locations?

For many years the concept of virtual worlds and far flung digital realities was the stuff of speculative fiction and philosophy. But it may soon take over the world.

A significant hangup on the way to portable artificial intelligence has been the neural synapse, which has been particularly tricky to reproduce in hardware. Until now. 

Microsoft researchers work to create a digital “alter ego” that will know everything about you and make you much smarter.

Elastic thinking is what endows us with the ability to solve novel problems and to overcome the neural and psychological barriers that can impede us from looking beyond the existing order.