Geoffrey Hinton says chatbots are conscious. But treating human consciousness as mechanical to make room for AI carries a safety risks
A new discovery near Stonehenge has revealed what archaeologists believe may be an early prototype for the monument’s solar alignment. It comes days before the solstice.
A rare “high risk” for excessive rainfall has been issued for the U.S. Gulf Coast. That only happens 4% of the time, but those situations cause most flood damage.
NASA is partnering with Relativity Space, the rocket company run by former Google chief Eric Schmidt, to fly a science mission to Mars. Announced on June 17, the mission is called Aeolus, the first flight in Relativity’s new Interplanetary Sciences Pro…
Robots are still surprisingly bad at remembering where things are. You might recall that your keys were on the kitchen counter last night. A robot working beside you would struggle to connect that object and location in a useful way. MIT researchers bu…
By tracking neural crest cells in catshark embryos, researchers discovered that the molecular toolkit behind face-building is surprisingly conserved across jawed vertebrates. The real differences appear to come from where these cells go and how they be…
Wellness influencers have stumbled onto a huge issue when it comes male fertility, though not every solution they’re pitching is good advice.
Two conservationists working worlds apart have been recognized with the 2026 National Geographic/Buffett Awards for Leadership in Conservation. One protects bats and small mammals in West Africa. The other has spent three decades transforming how we un…
Midjourney CEO David Holz just showed off the company’s first hardware product and plans to build a San Francisco spa, which he admitted is a bit different from the “cat pictures” produced by its AI image generator. Dubbed The Midjourney Scanner, it’s an ultrasound-based full-body scanner that uses a ring of sensors to capture vertical […]
PsiQuantum has broken ground on a facility in Moreton Bay, Queensland, where it plans to build and deploy what it calls the world’s first utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer. The site will eventually hold tens of thousands of photonic quantu…