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Anthropic Says Chatbots Have What May Be A Key Feature Of Consciousness. Are They Right?

Claude appears to have a normally invisible set of internal representations that guide its reasoning and output, which the company argues echoes an influential idea known as global workspace theory.

Is AI Making Us Dumber?

Chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini take cognitive offloading to a new level, handling everything from essay writing to medical image analysis at the touch of a prompt. This has sparked a pressing question: is AI actually dulling our minds?

Can Psychedelics Reboot Aging Brains? We're About To Find Out

Psilocybin is an intriguing candidate for counteracting some of the physical and emotional changes that come with aging

AI Can Now Design And Run Thousands Of Experiments Without Human Hands. We Aren't Ready For The Risk To Biosecurity.

Traditionally, engineering new proteins required years of trial and error, since even small sequence changes can unpredictably alter shape and function.

CAR T Revolutionized How We Treat Blood Cancers. Now It's Closing In On Solid Tumors.

Unlike blood cancers, solid tumors rarely share one universal target, making it hard for engineered immune cells to consistently find and eliminate them.

How The Bilingual Brain Switches Languages With Ease

Bilingual speakers seem to switch effortlessly between languages, even reviving a long-unused one with just a little exposure. Scientists have long puzzled over how the brain manages this.

How To Tame AI’s Voracious Appetite For Energy

Scientists are exploring new algorithms, hardware, and computing methods to lower AI’s power demands.

Scientists Find A Surprising New Way Stress Cascades From Brain To Body

A newly discovered brain-gut-bone marrow highway in mice could inspire strategies to protect immunity from chronic stress.

ASCO 2026: Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough, Head And Neck Cancer ‘jab’, Treating Bladder Cancer Without Surgery, And More

Every year, the world’s cancer researchers gather in Chicago for the biggest date in their calendar: the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting.

Analysis Reveals A Rise In Colorectal Cancer Among Young Adults In Germany, But Still Below US Levels

Colorectal cancer is generally considered a disease of older adults. However, a new analysis of German cancer registries shows that the number of new colorectal cancer cases among younger adults has risen slightly over the past two decades.

Why Breast Cancer Is Harder To Treat Than We Thought

A new scientific publication is calling for a shift in how researchers and clinicians think about breast cancer, not as one disease, but as a moving target that can change and adapt over time.

Immunotherapy Shows Long-Term Promise In Aggressive Lymphoma

A leading-edge immunotherapy may extend survival for patients with one of the most aggressive forms of blood cancer, according to newly published five-year results from a major clinical trial in the journal Blood.