I felt the usual flush of excitement as I raced to the front door last autumn and grabbed my parcel from the delivery driver.

An in-depth look at a chilling 2030 thought experiment where AI wipes out most jobs and humans become energy generators for data centres. From the fictional Energym startup featuring AI deepfakes of ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

The paper, published recently in PLOS One, describes an investigation of 112 ostrich eggshell fragments dating back more than 60,000 years from three archaeological sites in southern Africa. These ...

The question, then, is not whether speculation should be controlled but where the government chooses to draw its political ...

Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

Given the battlefield stalemate in Ukraine, Kyiv’s best remaining hope is attrition — inflicting losses on the Russian army heavy enough to persuade the Kremlin that continuing the war is pointless.

How do plants achieve their remarkably regular arrangement of leaves and flowers? And why does this pattern remain so stable, even as plants grow and respond to their environment? Researchers at ...

It’s the passive accumulation of identity drift. Every organization experiences drift: a slow erosion of alignment between who should have access and who actually does. It doesn’t happen through ...

Madoff would tax the billionaire class in two key respects. First, get rid of the estate tax, which is riddled with loopholes, and replace it with an inheritance tax. After a generous exemption, all ...

New analysis reveals persistent environmental inequality in the United States. Communities of color are three times more likely than white communities to live in nature-deprived areas, and ...

I’ve been critical of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in this column quite often. And, frankly, he is well deserving of the ...