Is humanity at a crossroads, potentially in the crosshairs of malign AI? We may not know, but best not to ignore the ...

Humans are remarkably well equipped to face unknown situations – and not just because of our brains, new research suggests.

There’s a moment in the film Deep Blue Sea that is known for making audiences jump out of their seats. If you’ve seen it, you ...

Burn books, Black history and Buddhist monks, in readers’ eyes. Regarding the Feb. 12 front-page article “ Combative Bondi lobs insults under questioning ”: ...

In this wide-ranging conversation, filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg -- the first three-time guest of BroBible's Post ...

The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...

Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn, and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Experts at the University of California San Diego believe the answer is yes—and that such ...

The researchers integrated measures of both brain structure and function to enable a more precise characterization of the human brain. Rather than identifying intelligence with a particular cognitive ...

Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

In 2024, researchers completed the first-ever map of the circuitry of a fruit fly’s brain. Despite its diminutive size, the organ packs almost 500 feet of wiring and 54.5 million synapses into the ...

One day, probably far off in the very distant future, if astronomers are correct in their assumptions about the vastness of space, Earth will be visited by intelligent beings from another planet.