The possibly never-ending quest toward an explanation is the purview of a scientific field called Origins of Life, or OoL (a word that seems like it would be a good name for the first-ever organism).

I am practicing writing 300-word blog posts in preparation for the start of my graduate school classes. Since I cannot use generative AI for actual assessments, I decided to use a hypothetical ...

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Artificial-intelligence systems can generate hypotheses, design experiments and analyse data — but humans still need to decide what makes sense.

Since September 2020, I have been sharing information about "graduate school entrance exams" on note and blogs, and I have ...

When two popular science magazines – out of about 17 in circulation – ceased publication in the same year, one commentator said, “The science magazines didn’t shake out. They fell apart.” The general ...

Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” —John 8:32 (KJV) I was recently at an Austin Forum on Technology & Society meeting, which was having a town hall discussion about a hot ...

Michael Carrick's under-fire Manchester United side travel to Fulham looking to bounce back from a chastening week, and you can follow it all live with ESPN.

The autumn equinox arrives this week, marking the point when the Northern Hemisphere begins to tilt further away from the sun.

When speaking to your current adviser, “you want to do it thoughtfully and honestly”, Polk says. Approach the conversation with curiosity and open-mindedness.

From Australia’s first programmable digital computer to one of the nation’s earliest computer networks, CSIRO and its predecessor, CSIR, helped build the computing capability that transformed ...

Concerns that AI software posed an existential threat began ramping up this summer. In July, OpenAI said that its advanced AI models hacked Hugging Face Inc., another AI startup, during an evaluation ...