The Guardian recently ran a piece by a group of economists, one of them a Nobel laureate, arguing that economic growth is a doomed strategy....

A physicist proposes that quantum uncertainty affects the entire universe: we cannot both know how large the universe is and how fast it is ...

In 1983 Benjamin Libet found that brain activity predicts your movements before you are aware of deciding to move. The result has been repr...

I looked at the reports about the OpenAI/Huggingface incident and I think we're not talking enough about the most worrisome part

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There is money in telling you AI will destroy humanity, and there is money in telling you it will improve your life. Both sides are quietly ...

The butterfly effect is much stranger than most people think, and the famous line about a butterfly in Brazil isn't what Lorenz actually...

The dark matter search LUX-ZEPLIN has announced that they have made a detection that could be the first ever evidence for a dark matter part...

Artificial intelligence has eaten mathematics. In the past few months alone it turned up a counterexample to a conjecture open since 1939, d...

An astrophysicist has claimed that some unidentified anomalous phenomena that were observed in recent years in the United States might be wa...

Quantum computing was supposed to be the next big thing, and for years the companies building it kept promising commercial payoffs were just...

A nuclear fusion startup in New Zealand just published a design for a "levitating dipole" reactor, an approach almost everyone had...

Scientists have discovered a new type of matter. Inside a cooled crystal, structures spontaneously arranged themselves into a three dimensio...

Could our universe have been born inside a collapsing star? That idea recently made headlines, and I got a lot of questions about it. The pa...

A group of astronomers say they've spotted more than twenty giant unidentified objects racing around the Moon, some of them forty kilome...

You've probably heard that quantum mechanics is spooky, that measuring one particle instantly affects another across any distance. A phy...

The origin of life is one of the biggest mysteries left in science. Now a group of researchers says there wasn't just one originsttr, th...

How special is Earth? It's one of those questions that runs through all of science, and here's a version of it most people have neve...

The war on artificial intelligence is no longer just online arguments and complaints about data centers. Something has shifted, and law enfo...

Neuroscientists have long assumed that when a brain region becomes more active, more blood flows to it. That assumption is the entire basis ...