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From not smoking to maintaining a healthy weight, there are many healthy habits that could help keep your brain young

The ability to admit ignorance could be a sign of truly intelligent AI, and a new quiz of unsolved or perhaps even unsolvable questions aims to put this idea to the test

Many children in the US seem to be using a chatbot to help them with their work, despite the risks of errors and often in defiance of school rules

The US Navy has many tasks it wants quantum devices to tackle, from setting maintenance schedules to enabling nearly unhackable communication

A survey of more than 56,000 sun-like stars reveals that “superflares” that could play havoc with electronics on Earth may happen every 100 to 200 years and the last big one to hit us was in 1859

The oldest genomes ever recovered from modern humans have helped pin down when and how the momentous mingling of two hominins played out

Large drones have been spotted flying over the US for weeks, and state and federal officials say they still have no idea who is behind the flights

A fungus named Psilocybe ochraceocentrata is the closest relative of a widely cultivated psychedelic mushroom, giving clues to their evolutionary origins