“The Da Vinci Code” popularized the idea that Christians stole much of their theology. It’s wrong, especially regarding Christmas.
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Earth is actively broadcasting and actively searching for intelligent civilizations. But could our technology even detect ourselves?
Ada Lovelace’s skills with language, music, and needlepoint all contributed to her pioneering work in computing.
We are still new at this.
Some analysts predict that Amazon’s revenue will double over the next five years.
Sleep less, sleep less, sleep more.
“A modern five-day forecast is as accurate as a one-day forecast in 1980.”
Shouldn’t “flight mode” be obsolete?
All the things that surround and compose us didn’t always exist. But describing their origin depends on what ‘nothing’ means.
From honing the art of perception to checking cognitive biases, here are a few techniques employees can learn in critical thinking training.
“Lethal autonomous weapon” sounds friendlier than “killer robot.”
Belief in God and the afterlife increased, while belief in superstition decreased.
For years and over three separate experiments, “lepton universality” appeared to violate the Standard Model. LHCb at last proved otherwise.
Even lifelong technologists and AI researchers like myself were genuinely surprised by the speed and impact of generative AI.
Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do.
The media sells bad news, but scientific evidence shows that we are making progress toward a greener planet.
A Cambridge Ph.D. student has solved a grammatical problem that has befuddled Sanskrit scholars since the 5th century BC.
If aliens are driven mostly by biological imperatives, humanity could be in big trouble if we ever meet technologically advanced beings.
You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?
For college students, it’s the early afternoon.
To prevent overloading the memory system, the brain may have a mechanism that tosses out certain types of memories.
It’s spooky, and it’s happening all around us. And inside us.
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that we often don’t truly want to obtain what we think we desire.
2022 was a year full of scientific discoveries and the dawn of the JWST. But Hubble’s still going after 32 years. Here’s the amazing proof!
Merely 256 genetically engineered mice could make an island’s pest population go extinct.
Once water gets more than about 200 feet deep, building on the sea floor is out of the question.
2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
