Our universe is known to be remarkably homogeneous and isotropic. This essentially means that matter is distributed evenly ...

An audacious trial will test psilocybin in people over age sixty to see if increases plasticity in healthy aging brains. A handful of healthy senior citizens are about to trip on psilocybin—to see if ...

After a couple of hours of apps and itineraries, Google’s big AI presentation turned philosophical. After a couple of hours of apps and itineraries, Google’s big AI presentation turned philosophical ...

In 1931, a 20-year-old commerce student at the London School of Economics received a modest traveling scholarship and boarded a ship to the United States. His name was Ronald Coase. He had worn leg ...

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, earlier this month, Elon Musk said artificial intelligence will exceed human intelligence this year. But he and other tech executives also warn that ...

Nearly 200 years ago, the physicists Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes put the finishing touches on a set of equations that describe how fluids swirl. And for nearly 200 years, the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — One way or another, changes are coming for Multnomah County's drug deflection program — though the details may depend on how much the county's district attorney and commissioners can ...

In the world of artificial intelligence, the idea of “singularity” looms large. This slippery concept describes the moment AI exceeds beyond human control and rapidly transforms society. The tricky ...

This week, Richard Waters, FT columnist and former West Coast editor, talks with MIT Technology Review’s editor at large David Rotman about the true impact of AI on the job market. Welcome back to The ...

An annual report released last week showed that police dropped people off at the new Multnomah County deflection center just 606 times – less than two a day – during its entire first year of ...