The sun’s current 11-year activity cycle has already peaked—but extreme outbursts from our star may still be in store ...

It’s not normal for public health to be so partisan.

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Nobody really knows how to speak to the future in a way that it will hear.

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A new paper shows ChatGPT-5 emerging as a tool that helps scientists test ideas, navigate literature and refine experiments ...

The same brain areas that help us map physical space help us chart social connections, and the best relationship ...

The ability of these devices to access aspects of a person’s innermost life, including preconscious thought, raises the ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Interest in Martian life had been spurred by a now infamous announcement from the White House lawn in 1996, when President ...

Cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter has argued that we redraw the borders of “real intelligence” whenever machines reach ...

A machine-learning breakthrough could lift the veil on Earth’s early history—and supercharge the search for alien life ...