When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

Some of these approaches may show promise, but new research indicates much of today’s AI is even more easily duped by false ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

Female mammals have long thought to be born with all the eggs they would ever have, but new research is challenging that consensus ...

This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence ...

MK-Ultra ran from 1953 to 1973 amid fears the Soviet Union and China were brainwashing prisoners during the Cold War.

Over the past decade, LLMs have become the most accurate tools we have for predicting how the human brain responds to language. Feed an LLM the same story a person hears in an fMRI scanner, and the ...

A rover on Mars can drill into ancient rock, heat a pinch of it, and read the carbon-based molecules that boil off. Several have done exactly that. None has been able to prove that anything alive made ...

Raphael Gomes performs a strange experiment to see whether creamy chocolate spread can actually crystallize like candy. Trump's Mount Rushmore address features 28 minutes of iconic words, 23 minutes ...

Nvidia Corp. is working to make humanoid robots safer around people, arguing that they’ll need to handle split-second decisions before they can be trusted to work closely with humans. The chipmaker is ...

The researchers pitted commercial AI models against experienced fundraisers working on behalf of the charity Save the Children. Across more than 1,000 conversations, Claude Opus 4.6 was nearly three ...