Project Hail Mary mashes up goofy antics with high-stakes space drama. Here's how you know Project Hail Mary is a work of science fiction: It's about the disparate nations of Earth pooling together their resources and intelligence to confront an apocalyptic problem -- in this case, the pending death of the sun, due to a mysterious alien substance.

Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours. In April 2024, Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO and a current AI evangelist, gave a closed-door lecture to a group of Stanford students.

Etched into the facade of the Internal Revenue Service's headquarters, just above a trio of limestone arches, is a quote from Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

When the Stanford biologist and science writer Paul Ehrlich died last week at 93, the obituaries that followed were a fascinating exercise in editorial balance.

Social chatbots offer relationships that are low effort, completely personalized -- and hollow. Over the past year or two, AI has become not just a utilitarian tool but a technology that many people are turning to for connection and emotional support.