AI such as ChatGPT is giving mental health advise to users. What impact will this have over the long term? Will society be better off or worse off, say 5 years from now?

The "Nazca mummies" were discovered in Peru in 2015 and, due to certain peculiarities (size, shape, three fingers on each hand), were initially presented as possible extraterrestrial mummies. Various ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Microbial communities hidden deep inside the caves of New Mexico have fascinated scientists who study extreme environments and search for extraterrest.

British police have urged people with information to come forward about claims of human trafficking and sexual assault from the 1990s which appeared in the Epstein files. Surrey Police said the ...

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Deep inside New Mexico’s Carlsbad Caverns, scientists found vivid green microbes thriving without sunlight, using near infrared light instead. Could this hidden survival trick reshape the search for ...

A Globe reporter suited up in two wearable models, the Hypershell X Ultra and the Auxivo LiftSuit, to see if they really deliver greater strength and endurance.

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Online fads such as sharing photos of yourself from 2016 and 2026 are goldmines for training AI systems, yet we keep doing them ...

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