Five scientific experts discuss whether artificial intelligence is — or might one day become — truly intelligent.

Scientists want to create cells from scratch, to unveil life's origins or provide specialized functions. Are they close?

At its Latin roots, consciousness literally meant “knowing with.” This was a borrowing from an earlier Proto-Indo-European ...

According to neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, it's our feelings, not high-level brain function, that make us human.

Nicolas Rivron, a biologist now based in Austria, spent close to a decade trying to build a model mouse embryo in the lab from scratch. After years of incremental progress and occasional false leads, ...

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a controversial French paleontologist, priest, and theologian, died in April 1955, a few months before a group of eminent scientists — including, notably, Marvin Minsky and ...

As Edward Donnell Ivy remembers it, many of the sickle cell episodes he endured in his 20s were akin to headaches or colds: They hurt, but he could still get up and go. Every so often, though, he ...

On a rare, clear day, one can look due west from the Mount Wilson Observatory, perched at nearly 6,000 feet on the outskirts of Los Angeles, and see the wide basin of the San Fernando Valley. A ...

In a video that has been played almost 50,000 times since it was posted five months ago, two cartoon children sing along as they guide viewers through the experience of riding in a car amid a vividly ...

In 2015, Peter Stout, head of the Houston Forensic Science Center, began administering a test that was designed to not look like a test. Like many crime labs in the United States, analysts at the ...

Last month, journalist Karen Hao posted a Twitter thread in which she acknowledged that there was a substantial error in her blockbuster book “Empire of AI.” Hao ...

Daniel P. Johnson, a geographer at Indiana University at Indianapolis, works with a team of researchers who spend a lot of time catching blowflies, dissecting their iridescent blue-green abdomens, and ...