Viewed from abroad, it seems only a matter of time before China emerges as the AI superpower of the 21st century.

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Finally, if you get a chance to sit down and talk to the family member or friend you’re trying to help, one approach can help ...

Why he thinks near-term targets can be a distraction, and what technologies he expects to power our future grid.

Madonna Yoder ’17 studied rocks at MIT. But her passion is for paper—with no scissors. Today, she’s a tessellation expert who ...

Ingestible electronics. Microneedle patches. A capsule that could replace insulin shots. In Giovanni Traverso’s lab, the ...

Say, for instance, a whale’s suspected cause of death is a boat strike. Researchers will look out for bruises and cuts during ...

It’s a popular example of the “Mandela effect,” or a collective false memory. And while some people may laugh and move on, ...

Mike Rothschild has spent years studying the rise of QAnon and antivaccine conspiracism. After his house in Altadena, ...

In the end, there is not likely to be any single fix for what ails the internet today. But the ideas the three writers agree ...

Perhaps nowhere is this more clear than when it comes to conspiracy theories: Many people believe that you can’t talk conspiracists out of their beliefs. But that’s not necessarily true. It turns out ...