Many people seem to love sweeping generalizations. Not all people, but lots of people I come across trying to discuss the politics of our time fall back on pretending that a category of people is homo...

Prithvi Iyer considers three research papers that provide insights into how and why AI chatbots can be addictive by design.

Judge says district court is proper forum to protest mass grant terminations

The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers California and most of the Western U.S., just delivered good news for digital privacy: abandoning a phone doesn’t abandon your Fourth

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All this season, “How to Fix the Internet” has been focusing on the tools and technology of freedom – and one of the most important tools of freedom is a library. Access to knowledge not only creates ...

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

Recent groundbreaking reports highlight our newfound potential to prevent diseases

In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI race

EFF is on a mission to protect your civil liberties and human rights wherever they meet tech, but it’s only possible with your help.

I present an ontology of criteria for evaluating theory to answer the titular question from the perspective of a scientist practitioner. Set inside a formal account of our adjudication over theories, ...

All this season, “How to Fix the Internet” has been focusing on the tools and technology of freedom – and one of the most important tools of freedom is a library. Access to knowledge not only creates

With more than half the calories in Americans’ daily diets coming from highly processed foods, researchers say making even small cutbacks will benefit your health.

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CENs exhibit unique immunological features, especially NK cells with young protein expression signatures and immune functions.

NWO adheres to the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity as the guiding principle for its integrity policy (1 October 2018).

The idea that human cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation is a useful conceptual tool for cognitive science. It was a foundational assumption during the birth of cognitive scien...

WIRED spoke to Lee Pace on the eve of the season finale of “Foundation” about clone consciousness, robot gods, and what’s next for the newly renewed show.

The current state of Sense Atlas (well, more accurately Intertwingler), and an announcement about office hours.

If you've read about the sudden appearance of age verification across the internet in the UK and thought it would never happen in the U.S., take note: many politicians want the same or even more

A new study marks the most significant attempt to date to capture how Californians are making sense of AI, Daniel Stone writes.

In exclusive chat with Science, Loreen Willenberg describes remaining HIV-free even after immune-suppressing therapies for brain and lung tumors

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another question

Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.