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I watched United Nations delegates debate AI-based weapons that can fire without human initiation. Humans cannot be taken out of that decision-making

In the Paris 2024 summer Olympics, swimmers will be guided by their digital twin. Here’s how they work to help the fastest swimmers break records

Scientists, pilots and even a Jesuit priest have tried over decades to understand some of the most ferocious storms on Earth, but climate change is making such efforts to avert damage more difficult

A low-tech immune boost may help some species of frogs survive a brutal fungal disease that’s already ended 90 species

While most Americans enjoy access to marijuana, barriers to research and knowledge expansion persist—with dangerous consequences. Unlimited research access is needed

Fear of hidden costs pushes us to avoid “free money” or suspiciously good offers

It’s well known that petrochemicals are toxic to our health. Here’s how to steer clear of these by-products of the fossil-fuel industry.

Popcorn might be more than 6,000 years old, an anthropologist explains

The extent to which people experience “inner speech” varies greatly, and the differences matter for performing certain cognitive tasks

The EEG has shaped researchers’ understanding of cognition for everything from perception to memory

Almost everything we know about the cosmos is conveyed by photons traveling across vast distances

Mosquitoes carry a pair of hormones, one of which drives bloodlust while the other signals satiation, scientists say