Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.

Artificial intelligence isn’t coming for philosophers’ jobs — it needs philosophers, and always will.

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.

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Researchers see enormous power in new tools—but also the potential end of astrophysics as a human endeavor

Neurons fire much more erratically than researchers thought. What does that mean for how the brain works?

The cure is likely to be worse than the disease.

An international group of neuroscientists joined forces to produce a landmark neural map, which revealed that decision-making lights up the entire brain.

Dan Levitt shares the 5 best books on science that feeds your soul with awe and wonder. Have you read Krakatoa?

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Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman insisted on the value of working with those with whom we disagree.

He helped pioneer a branch of the field that exposed hard-wired mental biases in people’s economic behavior. The work led to a Nobel.

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Beginning with his groundbreaking 1982 book “Chimpanzee Politics,” Frans de Waal pioneered studies of primate cognition and shattered long-held ideas about what it means to be an animal — and a human.

Researchers have successfully created a compound critical for metabolism in all living cells, which is essential for energy production and regulation.

“It’s like an omen of the future.”

If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing?

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Here is a list of the best books I read from 2023, including some amazing memoirs, a few standout novels, a little science, and more.

NASW is transitioning to Bluesky as its short-form social media platform for community building. Find out how NASW members can join the conversation.

This week on the Here's What We Know Podcast, host Gary Scott Thomas had a mind-bending conversation with Dan Levitt, the author of What’s Gotten Into You: T...

A deep-learning algorithm helped identify new compounds that are effective against antibiotic-resistant infections in mice, opening the door to AI-guided drug discovery

Scientists discovered a large repository of brain genes in a sea sponge. Why would an ancient, porous blob of cells contain neural genes?

In one experiment, the Viking landers added water to Martian soil samples. That might have been a very bad idea.

OSIRIS-REx—the first U.S. mission to attempt a sample return from a space rock—has successfully sent materials from asteroid Bennu back to Earth

Cattle may have been imported from Africa centuries earlier than historians thought