Who’s Who In The Fight Over Whether AI Will Kill Us

More than 100 AI experts have weighed in on whether advanced AI could threaten humanity—or whether the fear is overblown. Here’s what they’ve said.

Google is sending an AI satellite into space next week
Google is sending an AI satellite into space next week

Google is getting ready to launch a satellite with its AI processors to test how well they perform in space, as reported earlier by The New York Times. The move is part of Google’s Project Suncatcher, the company’s experimental initiative that could eventually put AI data centers into orbit. The satellite, equipped with Google’s Tensor […]

2 Side-Effects Of ‘Mankeeping’ Women Go Through, By A Psychologist

Mankeeping is the invisible work of managing a male partner’s social life. New research links it to women’s stress, burnout and relationship dissatisfaction.

Forbes 250: America’s Most Successful Historic Builders

For America’s 250th anniversary, Forbes ranked the entrepreneurs and CEOs who built America’s enduring economic legacy.

Forbes 250: America’s Most Successful Living Builders

For America’s 250th anniversary, Forbes ranked the entrepreneurs, CEOs and investors building an enduring legacy.

The Ovary Is Surprisingly Active After Menopause. Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why

A growing body of research is putting the ovary in a new light, not as an egg factory with an expiration date, but as an organ that shapes women’s health long after the fertile years have passed.

Why This Weekend’s Nor’easter Is Like a Hurricane

Nor’easters are usually a winter phenomenon. But this week’s storm is arriving earlier than usual, and it could take on some characteristics more typical of tropical systems.

Venus May Have Devoured Its Moon

One of the great mysteries in astronomy has been why Venus has no moon. Now a new theory provides a simple answer: It might have been eaten.

A New Way To Predict Where Sharks, Turtles And Whales Will Be

The open ocean may look like an endless blue expanse, but to a shark, turtle or whale it is a patchwork of constantly shifting habitats. New research shows that three very different marine giants actively select particular “seascapes” defined by combin…

Scientists Detect Radio Signals from an Exoplanet for the First Time in History

No, it’s not aliens, but a phenomenon caused by magnetic activity that astronomers have never before been able to pin on a specific planet.