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For two centuries, mainstream economics has promised that abstract models and free markets would deliver prosperity, ...

The Black Death has long been treated as a bolt from the blue, a medieval catastrophe that seemed to erupt out of nowhere and then vanish just as mysteriously. Now a new generation of climate ...

The ubiquitous plastic beverage bottle makes up about half of plastic waste collected for recycling in the U.S. Most recycled ...

Will your favorite sycophantic AI helper be servile forever? Maybe not. New research from the AI safety group Palisade Research suggests that some top AI models could be developing “survival drives,” ...

aDepartment of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia bSchool of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia ...

For decades, scientists have relied on a popular idea referred to as cosmic inflation to explain how the universe began and why it looks the way it does today. This theory suggests the universe ...

A rotating cylinder with its side cut away to expose the core, showing patches of purple, blue, green, yellow, and orange that are dense in the middle and more diffuse toward the edges. This rotating ...

Hurricane Gabrielle, a Category 4 storm, has passed Bermuda and is expected to weaken over the Atlantic. The National Hurricane Center is monitoring four systems, with two potentially becoming ...

The latest ambition of artificial intelligence research — particularly within the labs seeking “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — is something called a world model: a representation of the ...