Several "world-changing" technologies hit the market only to wind up being short-lived gimmicks. Take the Metaverse as an ...

Just like ChatGPT and other generative language models train on human texts to create grammatically correct sentences, a new modeling method trains on recordings of birds to create accurate birdsongs.

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence as a transformative force is reshaping how software is developed and ...

A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

Social media users praised the surprising interaction in the viral post, with one saying "this is how you neighbor." ...

People use metaphors to depict AI. These guide our use of AI. I examine those metaphors. A twist is that AI itself can infuse ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Nearly 1,300 probationary employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — roughly one-tenth of the agency's ...

Initially developed by theoretical physicist Brandon Carter in 1983, the “hard steps” model argues that our evolutionary ...