What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness?

A deep learning AI running on a supercomputer was able to link patterns of brain connectivity to political ideology.

We know sleep is more important than aimlessly scrolling on social media or checking our email for the 50th time. So, why do we do it?

If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can’t do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.

And if it does, could we ever measure it?

“If 90% of children had ADHD and only 10% of children could sit still at a desk, how would we design school?”

Your brain is trying to show you the future.

We’ve only seen Uranus up close once: from Voyager 2, back in 1986. The next time we do it, its features will look entirely different.

We each have the same 24 hours in the day. How will you spend yours?

Sometimes breaking a rule is the ethical thing to do.

Detective fiction reveals how a particular society or time period looks at crime and criminal justice.

The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.

The Standard Model of elementary particles has three nearly identical copies of particles: generations. And nobody knows why.

A next-generation LHC++ could cost $100 billion. Here’s why such a machine could end up being a massive waste of money.

The base rate fallacy may help to explain low reproducibility in various fields of science.

Why do you feel, think, and behave in the ways you do? Here are five frameworks psychologists use to answer those questions.

We all play the genetic lottery – and the outcome matters a lot.

Until recently, video games were accused of killing brain cells. Now, researchers are trying to understand how they help players get smarter.

On July 12, 2022, JWST will release its first science images. Here are 5 ways the telescope’s findings could change science forever.

Scientists found a way to revert pain in mice using gene therapy. Perhaps the same technique could be applied to humans.

Experimental archaeology is the practice of recreating past events using knowledge and tools available at the time. Sometimes, it involves elephants.

It could make enough drinking water for a family of four.

The spooky world of quantum mechanics might reach out and touch you — by mutating your DNA. Welcome to the weird world of quantum biology.

Robinson v. California helped to established a rehabilitative ideal: addiction should be dealt with as a therapeutic matter.

This isn’t America’s first rodeo with monkeypox. In 2003, the virus swept across America thanks to a shipment of exotic animals.

Before the war, medical experts treated the body as a sum of its parts. Conditions like wound shock and brain damage called for a change in perspective.

You can learn things 250% faster by unlocking your ‘flow state.’

Researchers have discovered 830-million-year-old microbes living inside a salt rock on Earth. Could the same occur on Mars?

Wind energy is one of the cleanest, greenest sources of power. But could it have the sneaky side-effect of changing the weather?

Privateers pillaged British merchant ships in the name of liberty — and profit.