River bank or bank account? How chatbots learned to make the quantum leap to context by training on billions of prompts ...

Though natural selection favours self-interest, humans are extraordinarily good at cooperating with one another. Why?

Tuft of hair on top, double chin bulging from the bottom, the offending arm held out like a weapon. A wicked smile that said: ...

is a research affiliate at the University of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, as well as an affiliate researcher at the Berggruen Institute’s Antikythera thinktank. His most recent ...

For Father Giles, who has lived as a Benedictine monk at Pluscarden Abbey in Scotland for nearly half a century, freedom is a concept defined by love and shaped by prayer. As he explains in this short ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...

Striking slow-motion footage captures the awesome evolutionary diversity – and handy usefulness – of a lizard’s tongue ...