Artificial intelligence (AI) is prone to serious errors and false conclusions when identifying signs of extraterrestrial life. Researchers from the University of Michigan have experimentally proved ...

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In 1967, Leonard Cohen released “So Long, Marianne,” a requiem for a love affair that was unravelling, or at least transforming in some critical way. The song is romantic—the Marianne of its title was ...

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On Nikola Tesla’s birthday in mid-July, the electrical term which his name has become is regenerated as a tall, meagre, eagle-headed man. Reporters hunt him out of his hotel cubicle for his yearly ...

Scientists in Belgium—that celebrated bastion of ancient beer culture—are harnessing genetic breakthroughs and machine learning to reimagine how great booze gets built. Here’s how their revelations in ...

The second International Aerial Photographer of the Year contest selected its winners and 101 top images. Here’s a selection of the photos that spotlight animals from a new perspective Carlyn Kranking ...

Greg Tietjen, chief executive officer of Revalia Bio, lives life like a jazz musician, riffing off opportunities that bridge the many facets of his existence. Tietjen ...

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Jiroemon Kimura, who is on record as the world’s oldest man, died at the reported age of a hundred and sixteen, in 2013. His passing spawned a slew of articles about the secret to extreme longevity.