You might find yourself invited to try out AI Mode via a large pop-up dialog the next time you visit Google, but if not, you’ll now find an AI Mode button to the right of the search box on the Google ...

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To celebrate their emotional power, we journey through ten sci-fi masterpieces that do way more than entertain: at their core, these films move, haunt, and linger on the audience's minds. So, from ...

Frankenstein has inspired collectors to seek out artifacts of the monster and his maker. This group illustrates the ...

Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explores the philosophical ...

Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...

Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans and primitive atmospheres during their early years. New experimental work ...

As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent ...