At a convening for the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 program, I saw how academic researchers are facing up to the challenges of the AI era.

In his 1927 paper, "A law of comparative judgment," the American psychologist L. L. Thurstone proposed that when people ...

A little over a week ago, artificial intelligence company OpenAI announced 10 advances in mathematics and computer science made with its as-yet-unreleased model Astra. The discoveries cover a wide ...

For most of modern academic history, the doctorate has been built around an act of narrowing. A researcher selects a discipline, enters one of its specialised areas and spends years examining a ...

Chinese scientists have reported a series of advances in weather forecasting and drug discovery powered by quantum technology, highlighting how a field once regarded as a distant scientific ambition ...

A “centaur” is a human helped by a machine: the person sets the direction, the machine supplies the horsepower, and together they are better than either one alone. Tech activist Cory Doctorow’s ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Brain sensors and implants are giving people the ability to control computers, robots and wheelchairs without moving a ...

The team’s approach, which combines synthetic biology expertise, artificial intelligence, and statistical mapping techniques, enables rapid, precise reprogramming of bacteria as biotechnology tools, ...

Seeing Beyond Human Limits: AI’s Current Achievements There are things humans simply can’t see—or do—out there in the cosmos.

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From democratic honeybees to self-aware flies, there's plenty we can learn from creepy crawlies about how to make better decisions.