A tech C.E.O. explains why A.I. probably won’t cure diseases anytime soon. Hint: You still need humans. By Kevin Roose Casey Newton and Rachel Cohn The leaders of the biggest A.I. labs argue that ...

Everyday sights and sounds quietly shape the choices people make, often without them realizing it. New research suggests that some individuals become especially influenced by these environmental cues, ...

Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice age. As the planet warms, nutrient-rich runoff fuels plankton blooms that ...

Republicans and Democrats agree that it’s important the U.S. is a world leader in science, but sharply diverge on how the U.S ...

A new report finds that a majority of Americans think the U.S. should be a world leader in science, but Democrats ...

A Pew Research poll shows partisan split over U.S. scientific leadership, with Democrats far more concerned about losing ...

Every year, Marketing Daily runs "most-read" lists. I've always treated them as a necessary evil. They are easy to write in a week when not much real news happens, but rarely all that revealing. This ...

“By 2030, if we don’t have models that are extraordinarily capable and do things that we ourselves cannot do, I’d be very surprised,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in an interview published by Politico ...

As I walked around Fanatics Fest back in June, wading through the rows of dealers and activations, I was struck by an unfamiliar feeling: Mainstream relevance. While I always like to say everyone is a ...

The playoffs should be no different with a record-tying 12 of the 14 teams that qualified for the postseason set to use a first-round pick as their starting quarterback. The only year in the Super ...

Dr. Shech is a professor of philosophy who specializes in the philosophy of science. As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about ...