President Donald Trump posted, and later deleted, a fake Fox News report featuring an AI clip of himself promoting "medbeds," a nonexistent cure-all medical bed.

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if they are instead gravastars, fuzzballs or something else entirely ...

A campaign against teachers who acknowledge realities of human biology forces a choice: Teach truth and risk your job, or lie and maybe keep it.

Going by Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper’s ‘Falsifiable Principle’ — that for a theory to be scientific it must be possible to conceive of an observation or experiment that could prove it ...

Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s turn toward authoritarian politics and the collapse of the information commons. Plus: Donald Trump’s politicization of prosecutions and Robert Proctor’s The Nazi War on ...

Effective safety management involves treating hazards as processes, focusing on elimination and engineering controls rather than just compliance checklists.

Since his office was now to behave in the manner of an executive prime ministerial centre which would support him as virtual head of government, Ranil set about restructuring the order of business in ...

Strategic surveillance systems are no longer experimental. They are operational tools embedded in law enforcement, border control, and public safety infrastructures across democratic societies.

A press release for a facialist’s spa recently touted its new “exosome dome” (a futuristic rotunda where you can experience exosome therapy). The facialist insists it’s not “your average dome.” And ...

We’re about a quarter of the way through the 21st century.

A new study finds that ChatGPT-5 and Google Gemini produce hallucinations in 40% of newsroom-style queries, frequently inventing confident-sounding claims unsubstantiated by verifiable facts. Google's ...