In today’s bleak media landscape of legitimate news existing alongside rampant chatbot hallucinations and a social epidemic of disinformation, it should go without saying that you can’t believe ...
Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if ...
In a weekend in the spring of 2025, a clandestine mathematical conclave convened. Thirty of the world’s most renowned mathematicians traveled to Berkeley, Calif., with some coming from as far away as ...
Ask a chatbot if it’s conscious, and it will likely say no—unless it’s Anthropic’s Claude 4. “I find myself genuinely uncertain about this,” it replied in a recent conversation. “When I process ...
In “The Afterlives of Oil Rigs,” Asher Radziner describes how oil rigs are habitats for marine species and explores the question of whether they should be allowed to remain after they stop producing ...
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. It goes without saying that a lot has changed at Scientific American since our first issue came out in 1845. But the ...
Results that may be inaccessible to you are currently showing.
Hide inaccessible results