Science Journal
What Exactly Is Artificial Intelligence, Anyway?
Everybody’s talking about AI these days. Here’s what all the fuss is about. And the fears.
How You Can Raise Robot-Proof Children
There will still be jobs in the future. Just make sure your child is ready for them.
Your Health
The Goal: Longer Life With Less Loneliness
When older patients feel more connected, they often stay healthier. Now health-care providers are taking steps to help them feel less alone.
Journal Reports
Digital Assistants Start to Get More Human
The coming chatbots will be smarter and more useful. But they will still have plenty of limits.
Weapons Training Likely Causes Brain Injury in Troops, Study Says
Service members who specialize in using high explosives or weapons such as rocket launchers could have lasting brain damage from the pounding on their necks and heads.
Science Video
Is Gene Editing the Future of Farming?
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Remembering Stephen Hawking
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SpaceX Successfully Lands Two of Three Booster Rockets
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Robotics & Engineering
Space
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Biology
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Curiosity Is a New Power in Artificial Intelligence
In developing AI, scientists are starting to look to children for inspiration.
Serendipity in Science Is Often Born of Years of Labor
Over the centuries, lucky discoveries depend on training and discernment.
How Bad Is the Government’s Science?
Policy makers often cite research to justify their rules, but many of those studies wouldn’t replicate.
‘The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel’ Review: The Zoologist as Artist
A scientist-draftsman for whom the organic world was a pageant of loveliness.
Essay
The Botch of the Human Body
Our many design glitches, from weak knees to poor sinus drainage to infertility, highlight the randomness of evolution.