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GPT-3, which features 175 billion parameters, just might fool you in a conversation.

You are only ever a few days away from your demise.

Through self-tracking and self-experimentation, we can greatly improve our cognitive capacity.

Theoretical physicist Leonard Mlodinow offers three strategies for relaxing your cognitive filters to give your brilliant ideas time to shine in the spotlight of the conscious mind.

No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity’s best tool for figuring out how things work.

Singapore has approved the sale of a lab-grown meat product in an effort to secure its food supplies against disease and climate change.

Your brain is bursting with ideas, and most of them are … weird. You only have to recall the wonderfully bonkers notions of your childhood. Like the time you wanted […]

Most potentially hazardous asteroids remain unidentified. NEO surveyor could change that, but only if it’s funded, and soon.

For centuries, universities have advanced humanity toward truth. Professor Jonathan Haidt speaks to why college campuses are suddenly heading in the opposite direction.

Implicit bias may be outside your conscious control, but that doesn’t mean change is.

In his new book, “The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power,” Jacob Helberg outlines the brewing cyberwar between Western democracies and autocracies like China and Russia.

The power of play: our forgotten lifehack.

The Big Bang is our accepted origin of the Universe. But is there another possibility? Since the mid-1960s and the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background, the Big Bang has […]

In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?

She’s the reason you’re able to work and chat from home.

Science was never the same after meeting ‘the particle who lived.’ Back in the early 1930s, there were only a few known fundamental particles that made up the Universe. If you […]

The ancient Greeks were obsessed with geometry, which may have formed the basis of their philosophical cosmology.

The Universe’s idea of a ‘typical star’ has changed dramatically over time. When you look out at the Universe today, you’re not seeing it exactly as it is at one particular […]

Lovers are parted from lovers, (grand)parents from children, families from their dead.

The Hubble Space Telescope, 32 years after its launch, broke the all-time record for most distant star. It won’t do better.

It uses radio waves to pinpoint items, even when they’re hidden from view.

Looking probably isn’t something you need to practice. People believe they can apprehend a painting at a glance. They read coworkers’ messages and assume they understand a situation. Or they […]

Yet, if they only obey the rules that we know, there’s no way to explain why. One of the greatest puzzles in all of physics is that the laws of nature — as […]

Particle physics needs a new collider to supersede the Large Hadron Collider. Muons, not electrons or protons, might hold the key.

The British economic anthropologist Jason Hickel proposes “degrowth” in the face of recession.

Whatever’s lurking out there, it isn’t all, or even mostly, normal matter. When it comes to the Universe, it’s only natural to wonder what, exactly, it is that makes everything up. […]

It rotates on its axis, revolves around the Sun, moves throughout the Milky Way, and gets carried by our galaxy all throughout space.

Science is an ongoing flirtation with the unknown.

Or is ‘new space’ created in between the gaps of the ‘old’ space? It’s been almost 100 years since humanity first reached a revolutionary conclusion about our Universe: space itself doesn’t […]

A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.