Whether it’s a walk in the park, hike in the forest or tending to a backyard garden, there’s ample subjective and scientific evidence that being in nature can have beneficial effects for us, from ...

If the Covid-19 pandemic has shown us one thing, it is how little we really know about how the human immune system works. Despite the remarkable success in development of vaccines to prevent severe ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

Liette Vasseur receives funding from New Frontiers Research Program Exploration program in Canada. Anders Hayden and Mike Jones do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

This post is Part 1 of a series about my new book, "The Four Realms of Existence". Many of us understand that the mental aspect of who we are is embedded in the part of the body known as the brain, ...

Autonomous weapons systems present numerous risks to humanity, most of which infringe on fundamental obligations and principles of international human rights law. Such systems select and engage ...

The question of where AI sits in the legal personhood stack isn’t as simple as it may seem (i.e. “nowhere”) — but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today declared that, as with other intellectual ...