When the British entomologist John Sudd emigrated to Nigeria in the 1950s to conduct research at University College, Ibadan, he found plenty to study in his own abode. Like most dwellings in the ...

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is likely here to stay. Its ravenous need for computational power has overwhelmed chip manufacturers and power companies alike. While our current AI ...

Scientists are probing whether language models trained on historical data can reproduce creative breakthroughs.

NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge have publicly posted three preprints establishing ...

A cultural anthropologist on how the show’s “infinite diversity in infinite combinations” conception helped shape NASA’s ...

New study outlines the first quantitative framework for searching lunar regolith for microscopic technosignatures.

How agents acquire abstract concepts from sparse, diverse examples—often without explicit supervision—remains a central ...

SpaceXAI today released Grok 4.6, a large language model that it says can outperform Anthropic PBC’s Claude Fable 5 in some areas. The company was known as xAI until last month. The Elon Musk-founded ...

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket carrying an all-female crew, including musician Katy Perry, lifted off in 2025. Justin Hamel/Getty Images You may have heard the term greenwashing, which describes ...

MIT neuroscientists have found striking evidence that language and logical reasoning are powered by separate systems in the brain. Even people with severe language impairments caused by stroke were ...

AI agents that can model the human process of research will accelerate discoveries in science. Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end. In 1903, the revered physicist ...

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled. I’ll just say it: What the hell is going on with AI ...