Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely...
Science & Technology
One Single Rule Helps Explain Life from Ocean Depths to Open Savannas
A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has found a simple rule that seems to govern how life is organised...
AI Meets the Conditions for Having Free Will – We Need to Give It a Moral Compass
AI is advancing at such speed that speculative moral questions, once the province of science fiction, are suddenly real and...
Q&A: What Makes an ‘Accidental Dictator’ in the Workplace?
The professional world has no shortage of micromanagers — or, as Penn State School of Labor and Employment Relations (LER) faculty members Craig...
25 Years of Everglades Restoration Has Improved Drinking Water for Millions in Florida, but a New Risk Is Rising
Do you know where your drinking water comes from? In South Florida, drinking water comes from the Everglades, a vast...
‘Return’ of the Dire Wolf Is an Impressive Feat of Genetic Engineering, Not a Reversal of Extinction
Dallas-based biotech company Colossal has announced the birth of three pups bearing the DNA signatures of dire wolves, an iconic...
AI Isn’t What We Should Be Worried About – It’s the Humans Controlling It
In 2014, Stephen Hawking voiced grave warnings about the threats of artificial intelligence. His concerns were not based on any...
What Are AI Hallucinations? Why AIs Sometimes Make Things Up
When someone sees something that isn’t there, people often refer to the experience as a hallucination. Hallucinations occur when your...
