If the challenge facing Western society today comes down to basic questions such as these, questions that all touch on the deeper issue of how we define human nature, then it behooves us to be aware ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney made his first major move as the country's head of government on Friday by appointing a cabinet filled with some new faces and old hands in new roles, as he tries to put his ...

Draft regulation for 2025 lacks key equity aspects, fails to prevent discrimination, and needs overhaul for true educational ...

Our brains use basic 'building blocks' of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study.

He unveiled the Trump administration’s widely anticipated assault on regulation on all fronts at once, announcing 31 separate actions to roll back restrictions on air and water pollution, hand over ...

Chinese New Year, DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (“AI”) model, garnered intense global attention and sparked ...

TechCrunch will be on the ground at SXSW 2025 — the annual tech, music, comedy, and film conference that kicked off Friday in Austin — in search of the zeitgeist of this AI-centric era. The tech ...

Agencies from Social Security to the IRS store sensitive data on millions of Americans. Here's what the government knows ...

Researchers have discovered how specific brain circuits process empathy, showing that witnessing others in pain activates the ...

A new book explains how biases from sexism, homophobia, racism, and much more have tainted the science of animal behavior and ...

A research team has uncovered key insights into how the brain processes others' distress. Using miniature endoscopic calcium imaging, the researchers identified specific neural ensembles in the ...