AI can design and run thousands of lab experiments without human hands. Humanity isn't ready

Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended ...
Observer

At the New Museum, Parallel Visions of Humanity’s Future Emerge

Artistic director Massimiliano Gioni has mounted an inaugural exhibition that can only be described as an epic of the modern ...
Wired

Some People See Aliens While on DMT. Researchers Want to Find Out What They Can Teach Us

A web of EEG electrodes covered Anton Bilton’s scalp like a jeweled headdress. The machine would map his brain activity while the potent psychedelic dimethyltryptamine, commonly known as DMT, coursed ...
New Scientist

Would aliens do physics, or is science a human invention?

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we dive into fascinating ideas from around the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time here. Modern physics ...
IEEE

Motion Reproduction System for Environmental Impedance Variation via Data-Driven Identification of Human Stiffness

Abstract: The motion reproduction system (MRS) transfers human dexterous motion skills to robots. Compared with other machine learning-based methods, it has an advantage in terms of the number of data ...
Fanbolt

‘Bugonia’ Ending Explained: What Really Happened and What the Alien Twist Means

Michelle Fuller is Actually the Andromedan Empress, and She Decides Humanity Deserves to Die The entire time you’re watching Bugonia, you’re watching a conspiracy theorist named Teddy torture a woman ...
Yahoo

Bees may hold the secret to communication with aliens, scientists find

Studying how honeybees process information may help humans communicate with aliens, according to a new thought experiment. Although the ancestors of honeybees and humans diverged in evolution more ...
Interesting Engineering

Humans may communicate with aliens in mathematical language, bees study suggests

If humans ever receive a message from intelligent aliens, the biggest challenge may not be how far away they are, but how to communicate at all. Our nearest star system is more than four light-years ...
The Washington Post

This remarkable book about a ‘wild boy’ reveals what makes us human

On Jan. 9, 1800, a strange boy wandered out of the woods and into the small village of Saint-Sernin in the South of France. Clad only in the torn remnants of a shirt, he appeared wholly untutored, ...
Scientific American

Human Missions to Mars Must Search for Alien Life, New Report Finds

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...
New York Post

President George HW Bush ‘knew’ of 1964 alien contact with humans in New Mexico: documentary

The truth is out there — and late President George H.W. Bush apparently knew it — telling a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at a secretive New Mexico air base in 1964, ...