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Researchers look at crowdsourcing as a way to teach ethics to AI.

It took the Universe 9.2 billion years to create the Earth, and another 4 billion for complex life. Could we have gotten there faster? The story of how the Universe came […]

Elon Musk publishes a visionary paper on his company’s plans to colonize space.

Does working hard make you more money or does it just enrich shareholders? The concept of hourly wages could soon be eradicated.

Other tech unveiled includes a (somewhat creepy) AI personal photographer, new VR gear, and a very affordable mini assistant.

Before Hawking, black holes were just static points in the background of space. His greatest scientific legacy taught us just how dynamic they are. In 1915, Albert Einstein published his General […]

A silent gif is sweeping the web because many people think they can hear it.

Homeopathic manufacturers take advantage of sick and vulnerable populations in criminal ways—and the FDA is, after much absence, starting to crack down.

Everything is made of quarks, leptons, photons, and gluons, yet everything comes with a finite, non-zero size. “There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the […]

A new study offers a theory of how the Universe was filled with visible light, up to a billion years after the Big Bang.

Aging lithium-ion batteries have Apple, and other phone makers, in a corner.

When you’re confronted by some new information, how do you tell whether it’s valid or not? “I’m old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn’t […]

Want to be hotter? Add more mass. Want to go even hotter than that? Lose almost all of it. “A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into […]

Soon, the line that divides the living from the dead might not be so clear.

Even though there is no ramification for being rude or cold to AI, we may have a tendency to display gratitude. Why? An interview with the founder of x.ai, Dennis Mortensen. 

But could hackers abscond with your genetic information?

Granted, genetic manipulation has been a dream for decades. Here’s what is different now.

Black holes shouldn’t be this big, much less this big so many billions of years ago. Yet here we are. “Ultramassive black holes — that is, black holes with masses exceeding 10 billion […]

These results may offer a pathway toward novel treatment options in the near future.

It would be disappointing and surprising if Earth were the only template for habitability in the Universe. 

SpaceX, the private company with big dreams for manned spaceflight, has launched a partly used rocket into orbit at a lower cost than building a brand new one.

U.S. Congress heard expert testimony on a potentially devastating military threat from North Korea.

If the multiverse is real, why hasn’t our Universe, in a sea of infinite possibilities, run into another one at least once? The Universe we inhabit is vast, full of matter […]

LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will not only be the space-based successor to LIGO, but will predict black hole mergers up to years in advance. Across the Universe, innumerable masses […]

The Flat Earth theory has gained a surprising amount of traction in recent years, thanks largely to YouTube. What exactly do Flat Earthers believe?

Researchers said this feat concludes “one of the major challenges in modern cosmology.”  

Don’t believe in dark matter or dark energy? Your view of the Universe just got a lot more difficult. If you ask an astrophysicist what’s the greatest puzzle in the […]

On September 1, launched a $2.5 million project called “Open Exploration of Vertebrate Diversity in 3D” or as many scientists know it – the “scan-all-vertebrates” project. Sponsored by the National Science […]

A recent study looks at whether collective apologies on behalf of countries may inspire hope that can lead to reconciliation. 

Boredom has benefits. New research finds that device-free solitude deactivates high arousal emotions while reducing stress and promoting relaxation.