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A Google engineer recently claimed an AI was alive and that it had hired a lawyer. If judges were to accept these claims, it could lead to AIs being frozen in their biased states, writes Annalee Newitz

The newly developed Extremist Archetypes Scale includes five dimensions of extremist archetypes.

The signal is a million times brighter than others of its type.

A round-up of studies finds no link with serotonin

Researchers have developed a new blood test that provides unprecedented insight into a patient's cancer make-up, potentially allowing doctors to better select treatment options that will improve patient outcomes.

A new study provides the first nationwide, small-area analysis of the variation in spending by the three main funders of health care in the United States: Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers. The researchers' goal: ...

A review of 17 previous studies finds no evidence for a link between depression and low serotonin levels, which SSRI antidepressants focus on - though not everyone is convinced by the findings

Experimental approach could uncover new treatment options for the virus, which is highly prevalent in Western Africa.

An anti-inflammatory compound may have the potential to treat systemic inflammation and brain injury in patients with severe COVID-19 and significantly reduce their chances of death, according to a new study.

What are the different food groups and how can you ensure you get the right amounts of each into your daily diet?

Higher pitched voices in women influence how their faces are evaluated, researchers report. The faces of women with higher-pitched voices were perceived as being younger. However, researchers found no evidence of a link ...

NASA announced that its Artemis-1 mission could launch as soon as Aug. 29, flying the most powerful rocket ever built around the moon and back.

Neurons that secrete oxytocin in the paraventricular nucleus in the hypothalamus are responsible for activating paternal instincts in new fathers, a mouse model study finds.

Researchers discovered a specific neurotransmitter that helps assign either positive or negative emotions to memories.

In Black women, racial discrimination affects the microstructure of the brain, specifically within the anterior cingulum bundle and corpus callosum, and increases adverse mental health risks.

Our understanding of the universe may not be expanding as much as the universe itself. In some cases, our theories about cosmic inflation may feel as if they are deflating into a black hole.

Bioengineers have developed a unique mattress and pillow system that uses heating and cooling to tell the body it is time to go to sleep.

Paramyxoviruses have the potential to trigger a devastating pandemic. This family of viruses includes measles, Nipah virus, mumps, Newcastle disease and canine distemper. An international team has examined key stage in t...

SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with an increased risk of preterm birth, but only for women infected in their final trimester, according to researchers. The study of over 5,000 pregnant women is one of the first to lo...

A new study shows that the experience of racial discrimination affects the microstructure of the brain, as well as increasing the risk for health disorders.

How the virus behind covid-19 enters the brain was somewhat of a mystery, but new evidence hints it may build tiny tubes from nose cells to brain cells that it can shuttle through

Testing positive for the coronavirus in the last three months of pregnancy may double the risk of a premature birth, rising to a seven-fold increased risk if infected after 34 weeks