Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens   How large is a large language model? We now coexist with machines so vast ...

USING THE MINNEAPOLIS VIOLENCE TO PUSH IMMIGRATION REFORM. “Comprehensive immigration reform” has failed several times in Congress. The issue is too fraught, too complex, and the parties are too far ...

It turns out that despite everything you’ve heard, getting a colonoscopy is wonderful.

With the president signaling a pivot in his crackdown, G.O.P. lawmakers have felt freer to express concern. But it’s not clear what they are willing to do about it.

As the use of generative AI becomes increasingly common, we must beware of an algorithmic colonization of language and ...

Follow live updates after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, by a federal agent in Minneapolis on ...

When astronomers first picked up a perfectly regular radio heartbeat from deep space in 1967, some of them half-jokingly ...

"Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant" is a radically honest discussion of bodily autonomy. Read our review out of its Sundance 2026 ...

The film tips its hat to a variety of animated forebears, including the works of celebrated director Hayao Miyazaki.

Kushner’s “new Gaza map” isn’t development , it’s colonial engineering. Smart housing for surveillance, buffer zones, seized land, tourist resorts, and moving Rafah crossing under Israeli control. A ...