Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help and harm her field.

As "Renoir and Love" tours museums in Europe and the U.S., experts question whether the Impressionist was actually a good painter.

We round up the winners at awards for achievements that ‘first make people laugh and then make them think’

Solar sails pushed by powerful lasers could reach incredible speeds, but relativity may eventually make the light itself work against them. At around 75% of the speed of light, scattered photons can b...

Mathematicians found that a broad class of networks will abruptly shift behavior past a critical point.

Earth scientists are searching satellite imagery following catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-China border for clues to the cause.

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Our comprehensive guide to Tokyo's adult nightlife: history, every venue type explained, and over 30 vetted spots with real prices and hours.

Published in Philosophical Psychology (Vol. 33, No. 7, 2020)

There are many tech irritants that are a scourge of modern life, yet we have lacked the vocabulary to describe them ... until now

From the 1800s to the early 2000s, physicists used the same theory to understand the behavior of fluids. Now, using a modern insight, they have redefined fluids from the bottom up.