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Now that AI systems can generate realistic images and convincing prose, are creative and knowledge workers endangered or poised for productivity gains? A panel of experts says it’s not so clear-cut.

Starting at the surface, you would have to dig nearly 2,000 miles before reaching the Earth’s core. No one could survive that trip – and the 10,000-degree F heat once there would vaporize you anyway.

In a new book, Smithsonian curator of religion Peter Manseau tells of how The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth first sparked hot controversy

Image generative AI (artificial intelligence), which creates elaborate images given any text inputs, has garnered attention. How does AI produce images? Here, Nikkei uses quizzes and visuals to compare AI-generated images with images and photos made by humans.

The idea of healing benefits and emotional catharsis through reading is intuitively appealing. But does it work that way? Jane Turner Goldsmith finds answers in neuroscience, philosophy and more.

A genetic study has revealed the existence of a previously unknown hunter-gatherer group that lived in Siberia upwards of 10,000 years ago.

This volume brings together contributions from distinguished scholars in the history of philosophy, focusing on points of interaction between discrete

The manuscripts, which include letters, poems and songs, were part of a private collection sold in 2021.

Molecule by molecule, a snowflake grows and eventually begins to fall. A scientific look at the amazing nature of snowflakes and snow.

Prehistoric people modified a skull to create a rudimentary likeness of its owner. Now, scholars have produced a more accurate facial reconstruction

The realisation that one might be show-offy in a good way is among Donne’s chief bequests to English literature, a...

Measurement was a crucial organizing principle in ancient Egypt, but metrology itself does not begin with nilometers. To understand its place in human culture, we have to trace its roots back furth…

‘Lunar calendar’ found in caves may predate equivalent record-keeping systems by at least 10,000 years