Heat has always been something we thought we understood. From baking bread to running engines, the idea seemed simple: heat ...

People want to engage with science, but few are eager to engage with "controversy." That's why I caution against framing ...

Jeremy Bentham This quote is, to an extent, appropriate to both the common and the civil law system (known as continental law). However, there are fundamental differences between common and civil law.

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

Apple has removed mention of carbon neutrality from Apple Watch and Mac mini packaging, but its 2030 initiative is still underway, with emissions down by 60% overall.

Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s turn toward authoritarian politics and the collapse of the information commons. Plus: Donald Trump’s politicization of prosecutions and Robert Proctor’s The Nazi War on ...

A new study finds that ChatGPT-5 and Google Gemini produce hallucinations in 40% of newsroom-style queries, frequently inventing confident-sounding claims unsubstantiated by verifiable facts. Google's ...

Talking across divides” is laudable—until it becomes a license to launder antidemocratic and dehumanizing ideas.

President Donald Trump posted, and later deleted, a fake Fox News report featuring an AI clip of himself promoting "medbeds," ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Going by Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper’s ‘Falsifiable Principle’ — that for a theory to be scientific it must be ...

The latest occurred when I was checking on a hospitalized patient and her mother pulled out her phone. “Doctor, I saw the ...