A new study from the University of Southern California warns that AI programs can now run propaganda campaigns without human involvement. That’s not a hypothetical. It’s the central finding of a new ...

All complex biological systems—like the DNA, RNA and proteins constantly being copied and built within our cells—are prone to errors. That means as life evolved to be more elaborate, it also had to ...

A common type of error-correcting mechanism in biology is called kinetic proofreading. For example, if errors turn up when cells are making new DNA, enzymes can cut out incorrect nucleotides. They can ...

To put this in perspective, earlier self-replicating ribozymes have been at least twice as long. But they didn't need iceblocks nor trimers and even a hexamer for reproduction. (Or dimers, but I can't ...

If using an AI chatbot makes you feel smart, we have some bad news. The study involved over 3,000 participants across three separate experiments, but with the same general gist. In each, the ...

Darian Mensah of the Duke Blue Devils celebrates after defeating the Virginia Cavaliers during a game at Bank of America Stadium on December 6, 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Getty Images There is ...

Abstract: This paper introduces the concept of a physical self-replicating machine for deployment on the Moon utilizing raw material available on the Moon. A detailed but selective review is given in ...

Consciousness is not just experience—it is experience that can take itself as an object. The critical turn occurs when "happening" becomes "happening to me," and later becomes "me noticing myself ...

What we know so far: Inside a tightly guarded research complex in Shenzhen, Chinese scientists have quietly built and begun testing a prototype of what could become the world's most complex chipmaking ...

Morris II is a researcher-built, first of its kind, zero-click, AI malware that spreads through adversarial self-replicating prompts manipulating Gen AI What happens when Gen AI goes rogue? A group of ...

Under the agreement, Instituto Butantan will conduct registrational clinical trials of Replicate's novel srRNA rabies vaccine for post-exposure and pre-exposure prophylaxis Replicate to provide GMP ...