Curiosity-driven experiments in a basement eventually sparked a worldwide rethink of how stress, addiction, and life experiences shape the brain.

The study introduces the concept of co-superintelligence, an outcome in which both humans and AI improve each other’s ...

“The cleverer I am about miniaturizing the world, the better I am at possessing it.” That line of thinking, as practiced in nanoscale engineering, has no stronger embodiment today than ChemLex’s newly ...

Bovine respiratory disease (BRD)—a type of pneumonia—is the leading cause of death for dairy calves after they become ...

Computer simulations and artificial intelligence often make significant errors when predicting the properties of new, ...

Pravin Anand and Ashutosh Upadhyaya of Anand and Anand examine whether taste can function as a trademark in India, with ...

Blinking is a human reflex most often performed without thinking, like breathing. Although research on blinking is usually ...

Eliasson’s work is often positioned as a harbinger alerting us to the threats of the climate emergency. In Ice Watch (2014) ...

Researchers from Skoltech and Harbin Institute of Technology have devised and tested a new mechanism for joining together the composite parts that make up bridges, the cooling towers of power stations ...

How a Finnish physicist named Karl Lemström once became obsessed with recreating the aurora borealis from scratch – and may ...

Our staff and contributors look back on a year in art, from museum reopenings to shows that make and remake history.

Occam’s razor is the principle that, all else being equal, simpler explanations should be preferred over more complex ones. This principle is thought to guide human decision-making, but the nature of ...