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A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”

Some think the reason fundamental scientific revolutions are so rare is because of groupthink. It’s not; it’s hard to mess with success.

A new family of drugs is changing the way scientists are thinking about obesity.

Creating a culture of innovation requires champions and cheerleaders at every level and in every function within an organization.

Almost everything we can observe and measure follows what’s known as a normal distribution, or a Bell curve. There’s a profound reason why.

If you have an old TV set with the “rabbit ear” antennae, and you set it to channel 03, that snowy static can reveal the Big Bang itself.

They could also “turn off” their fear.

The future of healthcare may bring powerful collaborations between AI and medical professionals.

The hot Big Bang is often touted as the beginning of the Universe. But there’s one piece of evidence we can’t ignore that shows otherwise.

Cooperation was the first technology.

Hindsight can cloud our predictive abilities but big data can de-mist forecasting — now AI is sharpening that focus.

On the menu: stews, cheese, and fermented drinks.

James Suzman lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.

The Greeks were among the first to move beyond “primitive money” and establish an official currency, transforming their trade, government, and even philosophy.

Some constants, like the speed of light, exist with no underlying explanation. How many “fundamental constants” does our Universe require?

Forget billions and billions. When it comes to the number of galaxies in the Universe, both theorists’ and observers’ estimates are too low.

Living is about staying busy.

A history of othering, experimentation, and mystery.

If you’re a massless particle, you must always move at light speed. If you have mass, you must go slower. So why aren’t any neutrinos slow?

Did fire change the development of the human brain?

The history of hell doesn’t begin with the Old Testament. Instead, hell took shape in the 2nd century from Mediterranean cultural exchange.

It’s knowledgeable, confident, and behaves human-like in many ways. But it’s not magic that powers AI though; it’s just math and data.

Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to “speak.”

The history of cartography might have been very different if the Latin version of Muhammad al-Idrisi’s atlas had survived instead of the Arabic one.

The Kardashev scale ranks civilizations from Type 1 to Type 3 based on energy harvesting.

From “The Castle of Otranto” to “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, these books changed the literary landscape.

Yes, dark energy is real. Yes, distant galaxies recede faster and faster as time goes on. But the expansion rate isn’t accelerating at all.

Most people have a distorted view of what being a scientist is like. Scientists need to make a greater effort to challenge stereotypes.

The Universe is expanding, and the Hubble constant tells us how fast. But how can it be a constant if the expansion is accelerating?

Anxieties about being identified will be superseded by fears of being analyzed.