Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s turn toward authoritarian politics and the collapse of the information commons. Plus: Donald Trump’s politicization of prosecutions and Robert Proctor’s The Nazi War on ...

A new study finds that ChatGPT-5 and Google Gemini produce hallucinations in 40% of newsroom-style queries, frequently inventing confident-sounding claims unsubstantiated by verifiable facts. Google's ...

President Donald Trump posted, and later deleted, a fake Fox News report featuring an AI clip of himself promoting "medbeds," a nonexistent cure-all medical bed.

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if they are instead gravastars, fuzzballs or something else entirely ...

Going by Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper’s ‘Falsifiable Principle’ — that for a theory to be scientific it must be possible to conceive of an observation or experiment that could prove it ...

We’re about a quarter of the way through the 21st century.

The latest occurred when I was checking on a hospitalized patient and her mother pulled out her phone. “Doctor, I saw the president’s announcement. If I give Sophie Tylenol, will it give her autism?

Once thought to be a balance between genetic lottery and lifestyle, it is now seen as a race for privileges that allow for earlier diagnoses, halting processes and reversing damage. And all of this co ...

The word “empirical” means: As the definition reveals, empiricism is about making decisions based on observations and experience, not just theory or pure logic. Looking at data and data-driven ...

What landscape architects need to know. We were deeply saddened to hear that Kongjian Yu, FASLA, the landscape architect, educator, climate advocate, and founder of Beijing-based firm Turenscape, died ...

The brother of the late President John Evans Atta Mills, economist Cadman Atta Mills, has provided a stark professional and personal analysis of illegal mining (galamsey), describing it not just as an ...