Culture
A conversation with computational linguist Emily M. Bender about the ways artificial intelligence can go wrong.
This month’s pictures feature coronavirus preparations, a robot that catches jellyfish, and a calm cat.
Assyrian sculptures date from the good times when the water flowed.
A new paper shows just how diverse the biochemicals in our food are, and how hard it is to understand how they impact our bodies.
Using media to brighten up dull tasks leaves adolescents feeling both better and worse.
Features common to the world's music may underlie a universal musical grammar, according to a controversial new study.
We have combined the faces of more than 500 Nobel laureates to visualize the average winner of the Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine, physics, and chemistry.
Doing dangerous things in pursuit of new knowledge was par for the course for this Prussian polymath, born 250 years ago this month.
New distilling technique creates a new, refreshing use for mashed peas.
New research reveals the physics behind the darkening of yellow pigments in old paintings.
Researchers find a new method for making jellyfish into an edible product with an enticing, crisp texture.