Landing humans on Mars could teach us whether life ever existed beyond Earth, how planets change over time, and how humans can live on other worlds. By studying Mars up close, astronauts could answer ...

Geometry may come from navigation skills shared with animals, while human language allows those spatial abilities to become ...

These places were often referred to as Mystery Schools by the ancient Egyptians, and they served as the center of humanity's greatest exploration. Though they were not just places for religious ...

An 80-year-old challenge in geometry has been cracked by an artificial-intelligence chatbot after a single prompt from mathematicians at the technology firm OpenAI. The company, based in San Francisco ...

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The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Yet archaeological ...

As a mathematician—and given the recent buzz over UFO disclosures—I find myself entertained by a specific hypothetical: If a silver saucer crewed by extraterrestrials ever touched down, then what on ...

What happens when the majority of content on the internet tips over into AI slop? On this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks to Max Spero, a co-founder of Pangram, an AI-detection company.

Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech disability, they found that a mutation in a single gene called FOXP2 were ...

Investors are aggressively courting AI researchers to build startups that can make AI more reliable and efficient. Yu Su, an Ohio State professor leading an AI agent lab, said he initially resisted ...

The calculus exam has been on the syllabus all semester, but when the time comes to take the test, all that comes to mind is a surge of panic. Having experienced the sensation as an undergraduate ...