The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

Does ‘Bugonia’ turn out to be a tense thriller about delusion, or a sci-fi movie about aliens?

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

AI such as ChatGPT is giving mental health advise to users. What impact will this have over the long term? Will society be better off or worse off, say 5 years from now?

Ingo Swann participated in classified experiments involving remote viewing. According to his account, he observed structures on the Moon.

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Watch the Early Access Launch Trailer for Astrobotanica, an open-world mythological survival crafting game developed by Space Goblin Studio. Players will crash land in a prehistoric era of Earth to ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover produced breathable oxygen on Mars on April 20, 2021, marking the first time humans manufactured a ...

Casimir cavities are mysterious spaces between microscopic metal plates in a vacuum. Areas of diminished energy between the ...

Yet the illusion is fragile. DroidUp claims Moya’s walking resembles a human’s with ‘92% accuracy,’ but demonstrations still ...

Empathy stands as a firewall against bigotry. But it’s more than that — it can also free you from bigotry. Understanding another person’s experience (and imagining if it happened to you) softens our ...

Science fiction movies are already meant to leave you thinking what the ending meant, but these five may have left you thinking about too much.