W hen Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison accepts his Nobel prize for physics later this year, he will ...

Anyone can unfurl the SlamDam on the ground along a riverbank or shoreline and pump it full of water until it swells into place. And there it stands, up to 1.3 meters high, shielding nearby property ...

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In ‘The AGI Chronicles,’ Kevin Roose reports on Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team, meant to prevent the most extreme risks of ...

It’s Banned Book Week, and the banning is badder than ever. Here are a handful of posts to enjoy before we get to this week’s ...

Swapping to a system in which lab members read memos quietly before team discussions helped to create an open culture.

John le Carré’s youngest son made his name with wild, inventive science fiction before taking over George Smiley. Now Kill ...

The experimental technology is still in the early stage and was fully tested in just two participants. But it could one day ...

A new approach to training promises to make the grind of skill-development – hours of drills, thousands of reps – obsolete ...

Fear of AI often outruns the actual risk. The excess fear comes from meeting something that performs selfhood without the ...

Founder of ‘Farasha Wellbeing,’ Shilpa Kudekar is a holistic wellbeing practitioner who has seen loss firsthand. Losing her parents was one of the biggest challenges and heartbreaks that she had to ...

We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations — on the origins of life, the ...