Patrick Sisson is a Los Angeles-based writer and reporter who focuses on the tech, trends, and science that shape cities and the places we live. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Bloomberg, ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

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Smashing a spacecraft into a binary asteroid system has managed to alter its path around the sun, a new analysis reveals ...

A continental collision trapped oil within what is today Iran. The same collision explains why that oil is trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz now ...

U.S. lawmakers are moving to delay the International Space Station’s retirement, giving more time for commercial replacements to be built ...

Maryland is one of several states reporting cases of the infectious disease mumps, suggesting the return of diseases—like measles—that vaccines protect against ...

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We found no strong automatic tendency to see AI or human art as inherently better or worse. This finding tells us that people don’t yet have a knee-jerk reaction or deeply held opinion about AI as ...