Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...

Many of us were first introduced to the idea of an artificial general-intelligence computer brain taking over via “HAL,” in the 1968 movie, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” when the “Heuristically programmed ...

Our world has dramatically changed in the last 250 years. As Matt Ridley said in his book, The Rational Optimist, we’ve undergone a great transformation. In his words, everything is better today: ...

One of the main goals of cognitive neuroscience is to understand how the brain supports natural human behaviour and cognition and, ultimately, to be able to detect and treat malfunctions in the ...

If the idea of robots taking on humans in a road race conjures dystopian images of android athletic supremacy, then fear not, for now at least. More than 20 two-legged robots competed in the world’s ...