Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and eventually the transistor at the heart of modern computing.

Under the influence of psychedelics, many report that plants seem to be alive. Is it wrong to assume we’re the only sentient ...

Students, faculty and community members interested in how artificial intelligence operates and the impact it could have gathered at the CUB Orndorff theater on March 4, to hear Professor Alice ...

We’ve had waves of red tide and blue-green algae throughout our region of Florida. The politicians and state water quality ...

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The 1960s were a wild time for the CIA. When they weren’t dosing each other with acid or trying to use exploding cigars to kill Fidel Castro, the Agency’s staff were exploring other novel approaches ...

It’s a bit like reading a very dense book – it’s small in size, but it’s full of information.” Paleoclimatologists like ...

Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time the process has been observed in the wild.

Political scientist Joseph Uscinski, a professor at the University of Miami, talks about conspiracy theories and the people who believe them. Uscinski’s research has found that conspiracy theories are ...

Researchers propose that the key to identifying consciousness in animals and AI lies in understanding how their information processing systems work.

A new study reveals that AI writing assistants are subtly shifting how humans think, and we are powerless to resist it—even when we're warned.

There’s been a fundamental destruction,” one researcher said. It’s going to “take a very, very long time to rebuild.” ...