We like to think we're the smartest humans who've ever lived. We've got AI, quantum computers, and rockets that land ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Ronny Mauricio’s performance in Grapefruit League play with the Mets this spring wasn’t the reason he was optioned to Triple-A Syracuse on Thursday morning. Mauricio hit .313 ...

The key to working at a place like Ars Technica is solid news judgment. I’m talking about the kind of news judgment that knows whether a pet peeve is merely a pet peeve or whether it is, instead, a ...

A big change is on the way for the Houston Police Department to cooperate with Immigration. ICE agents will now have 30 minutes to respond to calls from Houston Police when they are dealing with ...

President Donald Trump has spent a lifetime talking himself out of tough spots. But in the war with Iran, his trusty technique of sowing confusion to postpone reckonings is beginning to fail. Ten days ...

In the two and a half days since Donald Trump unleashed a new war in the Middle East, the President and his Administration have come up with an astonishing array of different, even contradictory, ...

If you are leasing a car, what’s the point of paying thousands of dollars due at lease signing? My contract says tax, title, fees and licensing — but then wouldn’t I have to pay that again at the end ...

Scientists still don’t know how the brain turns physical activity into thoughts, feelings, and awareness—but a powerful new tool may help crack the mystery. Researchers at MIT are exploring ...

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Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully explain ...

A new theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental forces and particle properties may arise from the geometry of hidden extra dimensions. These dimensions could twist and evolve over time, forming ...

A list of the world’s most misunderstood creatures includes sharks, bats and us—at least when we talk about our careers. LinkedIn estimates one in five Americans has a job that didn’t exist in 2000.