When legendary primatologist Jane Goodall passed away at 91 earlier this month, many memorials focused on her outsized ...

The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks.

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We are standing at a crossroads. Integrating AI and positioning yourself as the dominant supplier of clean, profitable secondary raw materials is not ...

The government justifies its deportation blitz aimed at immigrants by pointing hysterically at immigrant crime, which is far less than that of U.S.-born citizens.

I learned that government is not a faceless, bureaucratic machine. It’s ordinary people working incredibly hard to do a little bit of good. Austin Forrester is a junior at Georgetown University and ...

When I saw the recent report from the National Audit Office (NAO) revealing that residential care for children in England is failing to meet their needs and leading to worse outcomes, it was worrying ...

Q: I live where earthquakes are a worry. What can I do to keep things in my house from breaking? A: Earthquakes can and do occur in every U.S. state, although the greatest risk is along the West Coast ...

A mere one in five (22%) seniors tested as "proficient" in math, and just a third (35%) in reading. Seventyfour - stock.adobe.com Here’s one more reason to detest teacher unions and other special ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Artificial intelligence systems are thirsty, consuming as much as 500 milliliters of water – a single-serving water bottle – for each short conversation a user has with the GPT-3 version of OpenAI’s ...