Large language models can mimic thought and feeling with uncanny skill. But evidence from neuroscience suggests that intelligence alone is not enough for subjective experience.

The Mercator projection, left, distorts the relative size of landmasses, particularly towards the poles. The Equal Earth ...

Cancer research is a rapidly progressing field, and encompasses a range of disciplines, including basic and translational ...

Bose–Einstein condensates are a state of matter in which all the constituent particles exist in their lowest energy level. The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents more than one electron (an example of ...

A leading approach for building quantum computers uses neutral atoms to create the units of information called qubits. Such quantum computers can encompass thousands of atoms, and now an innovative ...

Infrastructure expansion can create important economic opportunities and contribute to sustainable development; however, such building projects can ...

Water chemistry and isotope analysis in the Indus basin reveals the source that may contribute to climate warming over millions of years.

Neuroscience is mapping changes in the brain during pregnancy. What they mean for future health is yet to be pinned down.

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A certain degree of image processing is acceptable for publication (and for some experiments, fields and techniques is unavoidable), but the final image must correctly represent the original data and ...