No body, no dopamine, no problem. Scientists have successfully coached lab-grown brain tissue to solve a classic robotics challenge, proving that the will to learn is hardwired into our neurons.

Josh Spiegel is a contributor to The A.V. Club. Scrubs‘ revival premieres February 25 on ABC.

Imagine balancing a ruler upright in the palm of the hand: There is a need to continually pay attention to the angle of the ...

To his credit, Kasy is a realist here. He doesn’t presume that any of these proposals will be easy to implement. Or that it will happen overnight, or even in the near future. The troubling question at ...

"Consciousness is under siege," says author Michael Pollan. His new book, A World Appears, explores consciousness on both a personal and technological level.

WIRED spoke with the Zoomer founders of a platform where AI agents hire humans to do real-world tasks. Their pitch: "People ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia Okanagan have published a mathematical argument that, they say, rules out ...

Dr. Khan Iftekharuddin received a $2.3 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop AI that detects glioblastoma earlier and tracks recurrence.

We spoke with three educators who are designing and delivering STEM- and STEAM-focused storytimes to help students and patrons develop an interest in science, technology, engineering, art, and math.

Tanmai Gopal of PromptQL said tech people have a bad habit of thinking "this affects me. So it's going to affect everyone ...

A new light-based imaging approach has produced an unprecedented chemical map of the Alzheimer’s brain. Rice University researchers have produced what they describe as the first full, label-free ...

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