Search Results

An AI expert just stated that it will be considered socially normal to have sex with robots by the year 2040. Sure, you may be having sex with a robot--but what will this mean for your human relationship?

Even arch rationalists, people who think very carefully, are swayed by the presence of others.

When boredom creeps in, many of us turn to social media. But that may be preventing us from reaching a transformative level of boredom.

Deep secrets don’t explode. They do something worse, explains Michael Slepian.

The acceptance of fashionable nonsense is a threat to Enlightenment values and public health.

Some of the coastal areas were not repopulated for millennia afterward, showing that there was a long-lasting memory of this tragic event.

Smashing things together at unprecedented energies sounds dangerous. But it's nothing the Universe hasn't already seen, and survived.

Spotty connectivity isn’t going to jeopardize Ukraine’s drone attacks.

Forty Starlink satellites were destroyed earlier this year in a geomagnetic storm.

A study proposes that an ancient trading network, called the Hopewell tradition, may have been wiped out by what is known as a cosmic airburst.

What was once an art form has been drained of color and personality by ruthless algorithms. Can we make chess human again?

On the largest scales, galaxies don't simply clump together, but form superclusters. Too bad they don't remain bound together.

While we can see many solar storms coming, some are "stealthy." A new study shows how to detect them.

The neoliberal call for more 'choice', seems hard to resist.

NASA is scrapping its Apollo-era launcher platform to make room for new infrastructure that will support upcoming Artemis missions.

The expansion of the universe is speeding up—contrary to what many physicists expected. A "heat death" is coming, but it's not what you think.

The act of observing doesn’t just determine a previously indeterminate state, but can destroy information, too. Imagine that you’re a scientist attempting to understand reality at a fundamental level. How […]

Our ultimate fate depends on something we’ve barely begun to measure. One of the biggest mysteries in all of physics is dark energy. According to our best observations, the Universe cannot […]

The largest moon around our last planet didn’t originate with Neptune. When it comes to the moons of our Solar System, there’s only one planet that doesn’t fit in with our […]

Stone stackers enjoy the practice as a peaceful challenge, but scientists warn that moving small stones has mountainous consequences.

The importance of finding and shaping learning communities.

There are ways to engage with someone with whom you don't agree.

A computer coder and a lawyer decide they have a right to speak for all the songwriters that ever lived, those who are alive today, and all those yet to be born.

What’s more massive than the heaviest known neutron star but lighter than the lightest known black hole? LIGO may be about to solve that mystery. Whenever a star is born in […]

There's more than one kind of wall that we can build. Building the right kind of wall might even be good for the U.S.

Notre Dame was almost torched in 1871, when Communards set Paris' major buildings ablaze.

If your goal was to destroy the science of astronomy and astrophysics, this is exactly how you’d do it. One of the perks of being President of the United States of […]

Good bacteria are our friends. We need to protect them.

A new report says there's not as much evidence of physical harm as you might think.

There may be a fundamental reason why time travel, backwards, is impossible. We’ve all had the dream of traveling back in time. Whether there’s a wrong we want to right, […]