While some researchers note the models made tasks more efficient, many scientists remain skeptical about using A.I. to author ...

Altruism, the tendency to behave in ways that benefit others even if it comes at a cost to oneself, is a valuable human quality that can facilitate cooperation with others and promote meaningful ...

In an ideal world, an AI model looking for new materials to build better batteries would be trained on millions or even ...

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Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...

Practical fusion power that can provide cheap, clean energy could be a step closer thanks to artificial intelligence. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a deep ...

Deep under a mountain in Italy, researchers continue to push the boundaries of science with an experiment that could rewrite ...

How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin ...