“We are racing towards a new era in which we outsource cognitive abilities that are central to our identity as thinking beings,” writes computer scientist Louis Rosenberg.
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Due to export controls from China, the Europeans had to invent their own forms of porcelain. One type involves dead cows.
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A reduced working week, argues Juliet Schor, is part of a sane response to the impacts of AI and robotization on human labor.
The truth may be out there — but it’s not in these close encounters of the third kind.
For every proton, there were over a billion others that annihilated away with an antimatter counterpart. So where did all that energy go?
For decades, astronomers have claimed the Milky Way will merge with Andromeda in ~4 billion years. Here’s why, in 2025, that seems unlikely.
More work is needed before declaring the technique a fountain of youth.
A paradigm should be elastic enough to accommodate new data and broad enough to explain the world. For Rupert Sheldrake, ours does neither.
Having a vision isn’t enough to be an effective leader.
American students are being compelled to specialize earlier and earlier. Here’s what it takes to build a successful physics foundation.
The idea of awarding legal personhood to nature has received renewed attention in the contemporary environmental justice movement, but much contention remains.
Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.
How do we deal with information overload and unlock creativity? Build a second brain.
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“Technology has always been co-opted for war, but truly intelligent AI, let alone a superintelligence, is a different beast entirely.”
Uncovering the story of Milan Hausner, the Sadská clinic, and LSD psychotherapy behind the Iron Curtain.
A recent advance in 3D imaging techniques helped spark the biggest ever discovery of North American cave art.
A wave of innovation is coursing through the nuclear industry — but ingrained opposition is the biggest roadblock.
Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.
How black and white is your thinking?
Dante’s epic journey through hell and heaven reveal how the poet felt about his own country.
A CDC survey suggests America’s obesity rate may be falling.
In the land of the double-blind, impartiality is king.
Barnard’s star, the closest singlet star system to ours, has long been a target for planet-hunters. We’ve finally confirmed it: they exist!
Having trouble learning? A PhD engineering professor gives you one key tip.
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Artificial intelligence can forecast the behavior of viruses and quickly make vaccines to thwart them.
SARS-CoV-2 first emerged in humans in 2019. Despite much noise generated by lab leak proponents, the evidence indicates a natural origin.
TikTok and its allies won’t go down without a legal fight.
Since the mid-1960s, the CMB has been identified with the Big Bang’s leftover glow. Could any alternative explanations still work?
Our classical intuition is no good in a quantum Universe. To make sense of it, we need to learn, and apply, an entirely novel set of rules.