What’s at stake for next week’s Starship flight, where the real AI safety focus should be and more in this week’s Prototype.

The battle over AI's promise and perils is not a clash between two opposing sides, but a debate among a range of competing ...

Chilean customs officials have intercepted a shipment of ancient marine fossils disguised as ordinary household goods, ...

Top AI and tech executives attended President Donald Trump's White House state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued AI labs do not need to coordinate on safety.

A new study published today in the journal Science Advances reports that the argon-argon dating method calibrated with that ...

The presidents visited the National Archives to cap a trip full of ceremony and symbolism but no major announcements on ...

Like so many technologies, AI included, genetic engineering can be used for both good and evil. Hence another euphemism: ...

When Pliny the Younger recorded his first-hand experience of the explosion of Mt. Vesuvius 2,000 years ago — a cataclysm that ...

But their evolutionary history has been a bit of a puzzle for scientists. The largest combined bat genome and fossil study ever conducted is now bringing some clarity. Its findings indicate that these ...

In the satirical 1964 anti-war film “Dr. Strangelove,” fears of a “Doomsday machine,” an automated, unstoppable device ...

Lobstermen and salmon conservationists say industrial aquaculture is ruining the health of Maine’s waters and threatening its fishing heritage.