Research has found that when you manipulate people to doubt free will, bad things happen – including cheating and aggression.

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A study led by geoscientists at the University of Sydney has revealed why some ancient continental edges became fertile sites ...

The Decision & Action Layer translates fused predictions into concrete actions. The Decision Engine performs inference, ...

Lehman and Stanley have a name for what trapped the goal-seeking robots: deception. A problem is deceptive when the path to ...

The world’s life-forms reproduce sexually in a bewildering variety of ways, even though scientists still aren’t sure why they ...

Artificial intelligence will upend the century-old assumptions governing legal education and firm business models. For ...

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

Neutrinos: They have no electric charge, pass through matter like a ghost and are so light they were initially thought to have zero mass. These are just some of the traits that make them so difficult ...

Located 1,000 meters underground in Japan, the Super-Kamiokande observatory strains to detect the faintest of signals amongst all sorts of noise: ...

The gene is AMY1, and it’s found in virtually every human population. It codes for amylase, an enzyme in saliva that begins ...