There’s a Chilling Reason Why We Haven’t Made Contact With Aliens Yet, Scientists Say

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...
Psychology Today

Do We Think of UFOs as Crafts or Beings, and Why Does It Matter?

Why do we tend to assume that UFOs are crafts carrying alien beings rather than alien beings themselves? How the UFO ...

Anthropic Releases Paper About Claude’s Mental ‘Workspace.’ Don’t Read It Uncritically

A new research paper from Anthropic hypothesizes that there’s an internal “workspace” within the operations of the Claude LLM ...
The Hechinger Report

Faster solutions, lower test scores: How AI is eroding math skills

Many students appear to be completing assignments faster while learning less from them. This conclusion comes from one of the largest studies of how generative AI is changing student behavior and ...

Adults Are Sharing Their Brutally Honest Theories About What Happens After Death

There is an age-old question that humans have been asking forever: What happens when we die? The beautiful (and sometimes ...
HUB

For Media

Tapping into the power of collaboration, Johns Hopkins University and West Virginia University are launching a new partnership to bring together researchers from both institutions to address complex ...
The New York Times

The Battle Over A.I. in the Classroom

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The Forward

In ‘Disclosure Day,’ Steven Spielberg finds himself at odds with Jewish thought about aliens

Steven Spielberg is in his aliens exist era — but in truth, he’s been there since at least 1977. That’s when the director said NASA sent him a 20-page letter objecting to the release of Close ...
The New York Times

Do Aliens Exist? Steven Spielberg Believes They Do

The legendary director on why he thinks aliens are real, and why he makes movies about things that scare him. Hosted by Rachel Abrams The legendary director on why he thinks aliens are real, and why ...