Category: 1. Edi-Choice

It’s almost impossible to know whether a peer-review report has been generated by artificial intelligence, according to a study…

Throughout its five seasons, the Netflix show Stranger Things follows a ragtag group of teenagers…

It began with some intriguing scientific discoveries.

A team of researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard began to suspect nearly two decades ago that so-called “emerging diseases” such as Ebola and Lassa virus were not quite what…

The debate over artificial superintelligence (ASI) can tend toward extremes, with predictions that it will either save humanity or destroy it. E. Glen Weyl has a different perspective: Superintelligence is already here, and it has been for…

Brace yourself for a hot story about plant sex.

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads — an ancient lineage of seed plants — heat their reproductive organs to attract beetle pollinators, which in turn evolved specialized infrared…

The…

In the movies, a comatose patient can be unreachable one moment, just fine the next.

“That suggests there’s a clearly demarcated border between unconsciousness and consciousness,” said Joseph Giacino, a professor of physical medicine…