In the late 19th century, Georg Cantor believed his new theory could help the Church understand the infinite nature of the ...

Up until now, the simulation hypothesis was deemed to be un-testable in philosophy and science and often dismissed as pure science fiction.

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As AI-generated content floods the web, what happens when humans stop being the primary creators or consumers online? A human ...

A Harvard education isn’t defined by the hours spent in Lamont. It’s defined by how we learn to balance ambition with curiosity. Administrators can change the grading curve, but the real learning ...

A sudden flash of insight is a product of your brain. Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” and how ...

The Supreme Court’s questioning of the use of a 1977 emergency law to impose tariffs on scores of countries raised doubt ...

Big Pink stands in a part of Multnomah County with lots of overlapping tax levies, including three that pay for Portland ...

Mathematics is the first place where evidence of AI superintelligence is likely to appear, a theoretical computer scientist says. “Will there be a superhuman AI mathematician?” asked theoretical ...

Reading achievement has been stagnant in the US for decades, raising questions about what other methods might work to help ...

In a remarkable development, a human mathematician has achieved what many thought impossible: solving the centuries-old ...