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“No matter how long you’ve been doing a job or how good people say you are, you need to care as if you’ve never done it before.”

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.

Humans are already so integrated with technology that the dream of transhumanism is a reality. Can we handle what comes next?

Volcanologists warn that magma-filled vents evolve over time, leading to an underestimation of the number that might erupt — especially those capable of the biggest explosions

The cat-and-mouse game between China and the world’s semiconductor companies is already having enormous consequences.

Will you die when your body dies?

The One Ring has its own agency and sentience — and it opens up a wonderful philosophy of things beyond our comprehension.

Many still consider hypnosis more of a cheap magician’s trick than legitimate clinical medicine.

It’s far less likely to wander into bizarre lies, emotional rants, and manipulative tangents.

Neuroscientists hope to learn more in the hope of finding a way to reverse dementia.

A new finding that unconsciously processed images are distributed to higher-order brain networks requires the revision of a popular theory of consciousness.

From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity’s journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.

“I think it has a real chance to reverse motor symptoms, essentially replacing a missing part.”

9 minutes of cruel history may cure the anti-progress delusion.

A series of charts shows how prevalent different mental illnesses are across the globe — but how we define them matters.

With the right prompts, large language models can produce quality writing — and make us question the limits of human creativity.

Archaeologist Bernard Frischer spent decades uploading the ruins of the Eternal City to the cloud. Here’s what it looks like.

Plato’s cave metaphor illustrates the cognitive trap of ignorance, where we may be unaware of the limitations of our understanding.

Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.

Uploading your mind is not a pathway to immortality. Instead, it will create a possibly hostile digital doppelgänger.

Take a trip through these master-crafted fantasy societies and ask yourself: Could I actually live there?

Man seeking meaningful relationship at the intersection of on-demand empathy and Rule 34.

Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.

These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.

An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”

Grief never ends. There is no closure, but there are things we can do to mitigate the feeling of loss.

“All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.”

Cognitive fatigue results from thinking too hard and long. Neuroscientists now believe they know why this occurs.

Humans who’ve lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?

In Orwell’s dystopian novel, the government uses Newspeak to control thoughts by controlling language. But thoughts do not require language.