Meditate on this Zen Buddhist koan (a paradox used to train Zen Buddhist monks) long enough, promises neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin at the start of his book, and the origins of mind, and perhaps ...

Donald Trump signed an executive order for the 2028 Olympics Task Force several weeks ago at the White House. In his remarks, Trump raved about banning men from playing in women's sports and snarked ...

In 1961, MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz was inputting numbers into a weather prediction program. His model was based on a dozen variables, the value of one being .506127. When he ran the model again, ...

Elon Musk’s AI platform Grok is seeing a huge spike in downloads and earnings after launching its latest model, Grok 4. According to data from app analytics firm Appfigures, Grok’s iOS app revenue ...

There were emotional scenes outside the State Department on Friday as dozens of employees, many in tears, emerged to spontaneous applause from colleagues and supporters after being abruptly dismissed ...

To Scandinavia’s Sami people, the Northern Lights inspire fear and respect. Children should never tease the lights, elders have said, lest the aurora swoop down and carry them into the skies. Inuit ...

Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill last week that will require mobile phone app stores to verify the ages of users, despite a phone call from the CEO of one of the world’s largest companies urging the ...

In a pivotal scene from the 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand, a mutant claps his hands and blasts a shockwave across a battlefield. In a theater somewhere, Sunny Jung watched—and wondered. “It made me ...

ChatGPT's image tool update boosts website visits, app downloads Added 1 million users in the last hour, Altman said on Monday Average weekly active users breached 150 million mark April 1 (Reuters) - ...

A round of applause, please: Scientists have finally figured out what’s behind the sound of clapping. The research pinpoints a mechanism called a Helmholtz resonator — the same acoustic concept that ...

What does a pilot really think when you applaud after a plane touches down? While flight passengers might attempt to show gratitude for a safe landing, some say this act could offend or come across as ...

There’s no limit to the promise of artificial intelligence. Or at least, there’s no limit to the promises that the powerful make about AI. We’re told by tech companies and their investors that AI has ...