Whether or not we have free will is a question philosophers have been debating for millennia. In the early 1980s, there was a brief moment when it appeared the debate may finally have been settled.

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Recent research suggests fine-tuning AI models for gender equity can accidentally cause extreme moral inconsistencies. For example, models consistently reject harassing a woman to stop an apocalypse ...

Animals do all sorts of things to attract each other as potential mates. Many birds, for example, produce feathers with elaborate color patterns – from the iridescent plumage of many hummingbirds to ...

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

Six thousand eight hundred feet below the floor of an active nickel mine in northern Ontario, something has gone extremely ...

Physicists working on the LHCb experiment have spotted an elusive and fleeting particle, a heavier and more charming cousin to the proton, that has been sought for decades ...

An individual has been described by a neighbor as follows: “Steve is very shy and withdrawn, invariably helpful but with little interest in people or in the world of reality. A meek and tidy soul, he ...

In the trolley problem, you are asked whether you would kill one person to save five. Something odd happens when the problem is posed in non-native languages.

It has long been known as the arbiter of reward in the brain, but recent findings could upend this classic theory of dopamine ...