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The “horizon” he points to isn’t a doorway to the divine, other scientists say. Yet, modern physics has been trying to answer questions once left to religion.

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The camera catches Buck Meek hanging onto a fence, illuminating the boundary between him and total darkness, which even his black suit seems to be blending into. On the cover of his new album The ...

Is humanity at a crossroads, potentially in the crosshairs of malign AI? We may not know, but best not to ignore the possibilities.

Thanks to advances in science, we’re now able to move beyond Bohm and Bohr’s theorizing; we can test their hypotheses through ...

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

A dancing humanoid robot gyrates to music at a fair in Beijing. - © AFP Pedro PARDO/File A dancing humanoid robot gyrates to music at a fair in Beijing. - © AFP ...

Stephen Hawking's profound insight reveals that imperfection is the universe's fundamental operating principle, not a flaw.

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Science fiction has been warning us for decades. But the most dangerous version of anthropomorphism is not a robot uprising. It is something quieter more intimate and already beginning.