On Monday, I looked at the possibility of artificial intelligence through the perspective of history: the history of the field and of expert conjecture. That analysis revealed that, up until now, ...

A painless, non-invasive brain stimulation technique can significantly improve how young adults learn math, my colleagues and I found in a recent study. In a paper in PLOS Biology, we describe how ...

Imagine the tap of a card that bought you a cup of coffee this morning also let a hacker halfway across the world access your bank account and buy themselves whatever they liked. Now imagine it wasn’t ...

Envision energy trajectories that curve and cross each other. Now envision energy trajectories that are straight lines and do not cross. Now see an explosion of energy at the points where the curved ...