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Is the Universe finite or infinite? Does it go on forever or loop back on itself? Here’s what would happen if you traveled forever.

Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.

Leadership evasion might seem like a plan for workplace freedom but it isn’t a good thing — it’s a denial of opportunity.

To solve “addition bias” don’t punish people who subtract — call in the “friction fixers” instead.

This necropsy represents an early entry in what would become a tradition of performing autopsies to consider an individual’s sanctity.

The passage of time is something we all experience, as it takes us from one moment to the next. But could it all just be an illusion?

From inside our Solar System, zodiacal light prevents us from seeing true darkness. From billions of miles away, New Horizons finally can.

Our brains cling to the bad. This method could help balance the scales.

Once students master the basics of math, they are allowed to use calculators. The same should be true of writing and ChatGPT.

AI, anxiety, and emotional intelligence are on learners’ minds as they prepare to tackle the new year.

Upskilling all managers and leaders is imperative if we are to solve the global challenge of poor management.

4 things you should consider before launching your next global learning program.

In the Saudi Arabian desert, the Al Naslaa rock formation looks completely unnatural. Its perfectly vertical split remains a mystery.

New tests to detect species being traded, as well as population studies, aim to help save them.

A crowdsourced “final exam” for AI promises to test LLMs like never before. Here’s how the idea, and its implementation, dooms us to fail.

Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.

We’ll never be able to extract any information about what’s inside a black hole’s event horizon. Here’s why a singularity is inevitable.

Your brain may notice fearful faces, even if you don’t consciously realize it.

Architecture in the age of AI — argues professor Nayef Al-Rodhan — should embed philosophical inquiry in its transdisciplinary toolkit.

New research shows that the transition from general to specific memories involves the maturation of inhibitory neurons in the hippocampus.

A member of a species that kills trees, this mushroom is not the first to be called the Humongous Fungus — and perhaps not the last.

We don’t need to think about what life is made of but rather what it does.

Today, the deepest depths of intergalactic space aren’t at absolute zero, but at a chill 2.73 K. How does that temperature change over time?

Some scientists see religion as a threat to the scientific method that should be resisted. But faith “is really asking a different set of questions,” says Collins.

It wasn’t merely an act of brutality; it was a condemnation for the afterlife.

In all directions, at great distances, the Universe looks younger, more uniform, and less evolved. Does that mean Earth must be the center?

God is not a vending machine, but is it wrong to treat him like one?

When you own your career, work becomes more than a means to an end — it becomes a vehicle for growth and happiness. 

With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know.

Within our observable Universe, there’s only one Earth and one “you.” But in a vast multiverse, so much more becomes possible.