Surprisingly, multimodal large language models struggle to read time on analog clocks.

"Asking the question of, "Where did the entire universe come from?" is no longer a question for poets and theologians and philosophers. This is a question for scientists, and we have some amazing scientific answers to this question."

In theory, scientists could've produced a deadly virus that accidentally infected lab workers. In practice, we know that didn't happen.

"What would a totalitarian society that is not well disposed to our own do if it had God-like power? We don't wanna find out."

Planets can create nuclear power on their own, naturally, without any intelligence or technology. Earth already did: 1.7 billion years ago.

The most famous Hubble images show glittering stars and galaxies amidst the black backdrop of space. But more was captured than we realized.

Hugo-winning author Ken Liu explores what early cinema and Chinese poetry can teach us about AI's potential as a new artistic medium.

By looking outside the current wave of hype, we can create a framework for weighing up the practical impact of AI on any business.

25 years ago, our concordance picture of cosmology, also known as ΛCDM, came into focus. 25 years later, are we about to break that model?

In around 7 billion years, we expect the Sun to run out of fuel, dying in a planetary nebula/white dwarf combination. Is that for certain?

Exoplanets can exist anywhere around their parent stars, even so close that they evaporate or disintegrate. Even the rocky ones.

It's difficult to project a sphere onto a flat, two-dimensional surface. All maps of the Earth have flaws; the same is true for the cosmos.

A look inside Mindstate Design Labs' effort to design drugs that reliably produce specific states of mind.

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"Quantum mechanics and quantum entanglement are becoming very real. We're beginning to be able to access this tremendously complicated configuration space to do useful things."

The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists must have a cause, and the "first" cause must be God. Is that valid?

Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we're witnessing today — and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle.

"We're at a very critical point in human history where things are about to change dramatically. One of the beauties of these AI tools is you now can just be anything that you dreamt of being."

We understand many things about our Universe, and our home within it, extremely well. The number of stars in the Milky Way isn't among them.

Common knowledge says the maximum size of a PDF is as big as 40% of Germany — but that’s a gross underestimate.