Six years ago, after watching my circle of friends surrender one too many evenings to insurance wrangling and doctor portals and DMV confusion, I emailed them a proposal: Come over next Tuesday. Grab ...

The finances of Silicon Valley’s two largest artificial-intelligence startups show their diverging approaches to the AI boom, with Anthropic on a pace to turn a profit far more quickly than rival ...

A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world. Reading a person’s mind using a recording of their brain ...

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging standard for AI tools and resources. The standard is compatible with normal REST API servers, but adds extra metadata to describe tools, resources, and ...

Welcome to our guide to the commodities powering the global economy. Today, senior reporter James Attwood looks at the dramatic reversal in the copper market. When copper traders gathered in London ...

MANY COUPLES struggle to conceive. Some are helped by IVF (in-vitro fertilisation). But if the woman has no usable eggs to fertilise, they must either give up or use a donor. Researchers have thus ...

This is a human-written story voiced by AI. Got feedback? Take our survey. (See our AI policy here.) The findings powerfully demonstrate the flexoelectric effect, a phenomenon where electricity is ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Was he talking about climbing Mount Everest or running a marathon—or whatever feat equated to ...

Women flooded the Buzzfeed Community board and Reddit to share the non-sexual things that men do that are huge turn-ons. Men, take note! While physical attraction is often the go-to focus, many women ...

A research team created a plant-inspired molecule that can store four charges using sunlight, a key step toward artificial photosynthesis. Unlike past attempts, it works with dimmer light, edging ...