Intelligence

By New Scientist staff The heat death of the universe is coming for us. The cosmos is expanding faster and faster, and eventually everything will…

During last Wednesday’s congressional hearing about Twitter transparency, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was forced to take accountability for the damaging…

Our gut bacteria can play a role in everything from sleep to IBS and how we deal with stress, and we are finally working out how to use them to…

The European Parliament passed a resolution on September 12, 2018 calling for an international ban on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). The…

As of late, T.G.I. Friday’s — that American stalwart of strip malls and airports — has a surprisingly modern engine behind it: artificial…

Data science jobs are among the most coveted careers in America, taking the no. 1 spot on Glassdoor’s Best Jobs in America list for the past three…

The ancient town of Hasanlu was under savage attack when a chance event meant every detail was frozen in time. Finally the story can be told, and…

The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) has announced the appointment of two new associate department heads, and the…

Should scholars serve the truth, even at the cost of social harmony? Should you expose a fiction even if that fiction sustains the social order? In…

This article was written by Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber for Scientific American magazine. “As a boy, I wanted to maximize my impact on the world, so I…