Two senior figures in consciousness research think so. Or near enough.

At an event in the Science Museum, I was asked to predict the future of AI. That’s rather tricky when we still can't agree on what intelligence is.

Over 500 years before the building of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, First Dynasty kings were buried in a tomb surrounded by many burials of household officials and artisans — many of which seem to...

Like humans, bumble bees can plan ahead when working through a problem, even pausing to consider the solution

When a tea break at UCL, a stubborn PhD student and a quantum chip called Garnet taught AI to respect the laws of physics

An innovative safeguard could help to flag proteins devised by artificial-intelligence tools such as AlphaFold, but the digital marker can be erased.

Opinion | AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment.

The Nobels reward what's already been done. Britain should create a prize of similar stature for what hasn't, and I know what it should tackle first.

Dog brains segment speech into words in a way previously seen only in humans, a new study from Hungary finds. This suggests that efficient speech processing is not necessarily a consequence of humans&...

The Nobels reward what's already been done. Britain should create a prize of similar stature for what hasn't, and I know what it should tackle first.

Understanding why some people see no benefits from potent anti-obesity medications could lead to new therapies and personalized weight-loss regimens.

A father's coded diaries, black holes, a boy who died in the next hospital bed and more from Graham Farmelo’s monumental biography.

The atlas of gene expression in the prefrontal cortex was created using samples from almost 1,500 donors of all ages — from infants to centenarians.

The instrument, which operates near absolute zero for hours, will soon ship to a few labs. Researchers are thrilled.

Nature examines whether the technology might spell the end for humans, and why AI companies are calling for a slowdown.