Conversational AIs are getting better at sounding human. But when their goals misalign with ours, the consequences can be surprisingly personal.

First quakes are the most dangerous: Once a healed fault ruptures for the first time, it cannot generate another major ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Scientists found a virus-like living entity in human bodies named "obelisks" - small loops of RNA, each a thousand genetic ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.

“The annual statistics on scientific procedures shows the number of procedures involving animals has gone down. “The number of procedures using animals in the UK is now about 77% of what it was in ...

ITER -- a monumental project to demonstrate nuclear fusion on a large-scale -- is entering its most crucial stage, after its "beating heart" is complete.

Lauren Gunderson's "anthropology," now at Rogue Machine Theatre, and Jordan Harrison's "Marjorie Prime," opening on Broadway ...

Guillermo del Toro breathes new life into the much filmed story of Frankenstein, the genre defining tale of one mad scientist ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells ...

Researchers have succeeded in making human skin cells behave like egg cells, though the resulting fertilized embryos run them ...