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In a study published Thursday in the journal Plos Computational Biology, researchers from the US used computational software to decode brain signals and predict what their subjects were seeing in […]

Around 2013, esoteric programming language enthusiast and comics writer named David Morgan-Mar unveiled his Intelligent Design Sort, an algorithm that doesn’t actually sort information and instead just says that it […]

A full-size cast of one of the largest animals ever to walk the planet will be unveiled at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) next month. Measuring 122 feet […]

66,000 yottayears is a 6.6 followed by 28 zeroes. It looks like this: 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 This is the expected lifespan of a single electron, according to new measurements described in this […]

Should we expect and design superintelligent machines to be not zombie-like but conscious? And if so, how would we achieve that?

You’re not stuck with the brain you’re born with. You may be given certain genes but what you do in your life changes your brain

In a study published on Tuesday in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers present neurophysiological evidence that confirms humans feel empathy when they see a human-shaped robot hand get hurt, similar […]

From an evolutionary perspective, our fear instincts make a lot of sense. But in our cozy modern-day lives, fear sometimes seems to do more harm than good.

As described in the current issue of Science Translational Medicine, researchers have found that antioxidants as much as double the rate of melanoma metastasis in mouse models. The results align […]