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Philip Seargeant tells us how AI will shape the future of our language use.

When a person (or monkey) is facing stakes that are too high, the stress can interfere with neurons, affecting how they direct the body to execute movements, a study suggests.

The Antarctic ozone hole usually starts forming in early August, but rare warming events and a strangely elongated polar vortex this year may have delayed its arrival.

Meet the ‘owl slime’ amoeba, which drains its prey and spits out the shell.

The discovery of two entangled quarks at the large Hadron Collider is the highest-energy observation of entanglement ever made.

The Florida Current, a major contributor to a system of ocean currents that regulate Earth’s climate, has not weakened as much as previously reported.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has sent home pictures of a mysterious black-and-white striped rock, the likes of which scientists have never seen before on Mars.

Climate change is making extreme weather worse. It tripled the risk of Hurricane Harvey’s record rainfall over Texas in 2017. It made Australia’s devastating wildfires in 2019 and 2020 at least 30 percent more likely. And it made a heat…

After Philip Seargeant’s grandmother suffered a stroke, she lost the ability to speak for several days. The experience made him reflect on brain-computer interfaces — a technology with both positive and dystopian implications.

“If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then.”