In a remarkable development, a human mathematician has achieved what many thought impossible: solving the centuries-old “kissing problem” in mathematics. This breakthrough, reported on October 23, ...

Humanoids have sucked a lot of the air out of the room. It is, after all, a lot easier to generate press for robots that look and move like humans. Ultimately, however, both the efficacy and ...

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Even with “all the best-laid plans” (adapted from a line in “To a Mouse,” by Robert Burns), there will still be a monkey wrench. Even if you prepared for Plan ...

Almost immediately after a previous article of mine posted, I received an email that made me realize that in addition to thinking human, we need to be human. What does this mean? Here is how I came to ...

The planarian is nobody's idea of a genius. A flatworm shaped like a comma, it can be found wriggling through the muck of lakes and ponds worldwide. Its pin-size head has a microscopic structure that ...