In “The Beasts of the East,” journalist Andrew Moore charts the natural history of the East and the people who have dedicated ...

In "The God Test," Robert Wright considers an evolutionary leap in which human consciousness becomes infused with AI.

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 ...

Last year, Mohammad Hosseini, an artificial intelligence ethics researcher at Northwestern University, worked with a team to evaluate about 500 article submissions as an editor of the journal of ...

In 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...

It’s been more than 30 years since the award-winning film “Rain Man,” starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, put a spotlight on autism — or, more specifically, on a specific type of autism ...

The view from Plains Road, a sandy two-track running through the pine barrens in Montague, Massachusetts, often looks parched, rust-colored, and, occasionally, blackened by fire. In recent decades, ...

In the summer of 2022, Abdel Abdellaoui was set to give a keynote at the annual conference of the International Society for Intelligence Research. But when he learned he’d be sharing a speaker roster ...

Timothy Stryker was making his second visit to Svalbard, a Norwegian island chain nudged up against the North Pole, but the yield signs still caught his attention: They directed drivers to defer not ...

This story was co-reported by Teresa Carr for Undark and Margaret Manto for NOTUS. When he realized that Senate Republicans were characterizing his federally funded research project as one of many ...

As a teenager growing up in Nigeria, Helen Onyeaka was obsessed with microorganisms. The tiny lifeforms, which include bacteria and yeast, can be grown quickly and in huge quantities. Onyeaka wondered ...

On some unknown day in 2027, if all goes as planned, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch toward the dark void beyond Earth’s atmosphere, carrying with it the basic makings of a space station that ...