The path toward intelligent life, they argue, may be more of a predictable process, unfolding as global conditions allow in a ...

An understanding of brain evolution may prove useful in the development of research in forensic psychology, including ...

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

Planetesimal belts, remnants of the planet formation process, hold a wealth of clues about planetary systems beyond our own. These belts, analogous to the Kuiper and asteroid belts in our Solar System ...

But these are special occasion words, sprinkled sparingly into writing and conversation. The words in heaviest rotation are ...

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never seen before.

So-called "infinite-layer" nickelate materials, characterized by their unique crystal and electronic structures ... of high temperature superconductors analogous to cuprates.

More recently, nickel-based materials have attracted attention as a new family of high temperature superconductors analogous to cuprates. Neodymium nickelate becomes particularly interesting when ...

Examining the nature and origin of human intelligence and the intersection with machine intelligence in the past, present and (posited) future.