In rethinking whether AI is sentient, we are asking bigger questions about cognition, human-machine interaction and even our ...

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The Epstein files revive questions of whether the disgraced financier sought to merely cultivate famous scientists, or to ...

Extremophile molds are invading art museums and devouring their collections. Stigma and climate change have fueled their ...

The U.S. has held its measles-free status for more than 25 years. Experts say unrelenting outbreaks in the past year may ...

When you have an acute injury, your body is sending signals through the peripheral and central nervous systems and the immune ...

These breakthroughs remind us that science is, as Astrid Söderbergh Widding, chair of the Nobel Foundation, stated in her ...

Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form ...

A pet cow named Veronika uses a tool in a surprisingly sophisticated way—possibly because she has been allowed to live her ...