Science fiction (SF) influences everything in this day and age, from the design of everyday artifacts to how we—including the current crop of 50-something Silicon Valley billionaires—work. And that’s ...

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ChatGPT and the Future of AI: The Deep Language Revolution Terrence J. Sejnowski The MIT Press (2024) Some of the surprise winners of this year’s Nobel prizes were the developers of AlphaFold, an ...

This story was originally published on August 24, 2023 and has been updated to include a rerun of the podcast episode. There is a moment of awe that washes over you when you step into a forest.

Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. A white lab coat. An unsmiling expression. Thick glasses and unkempt hair. In one hand, a device replete ...

Garfield Kwan and Dana Song. (Courtesy Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego) It’s 2020 and aquarists just discovered how to breed seadragons in-house: a combination of proper lighting, noise, tank size, and more.

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge? The desire to learn is partly a preference for novelty: we ...

The Biosphere 2 facility, specifically its Landscape Evolution Observatory (LEO), serves as a research platform to investigate how life transforms landscapes, ranging from local environments to ...

US biomedical agency’s public-access policy kicks in on 1 July. Nature talks to specialists about how to comply. From 1 July, researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be ...