Technology

Large language models lack emotion and self-consciousness, but they appear to generate reasonable answers to moral quandaries

A recent Supreme Court decision rules that the U.S. government can talk to scientists and social media companies to curb online falsehoods

Older people are increasingly becoming the targets of fraudsters. Here’s how to stay safe and what to do if you think you’ve been scammed

Claims of artificial general intelligence are increasingly common. But can anyone agree on what it is?

Lynn Conway, a trans woman and advocate for LGBTQ rights, was underappreciated and often underrecognized for her work in chip design

Programmable liquids could aid robot grippers, shock absorption, acoustics, and more

Nature still outdoes the machine, says a photographer whose real image won an AI photography competition

Students should learn about both the natural world and human-made—or engineered—one we live in

Replacing two 50-car trains with a single 100-car train increases the odds of derailment by 11 percent, according to a new risk analysis

Is baby Skynet already here? We need robust laws now to withstand eliminating humans from nuclear decision-making

Sweltering heat in Greece, ozone-damaging chemicals on the decline and an investigation of what space does to our body are all in this week’s news roundup.

New electric-powered, vertical-lift aircraft are rising to the challenge of delivering clean and cheap air taxi services