Science
Anthropic Says Chatbots Have What May Be A Key Feature Of Consciousness. Are They Right?
Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 18th Jul, 2026
by Alexander Muller
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?
Posted in Medicine, Science, Software on 17th Jul, 2026
by Alexander Muller
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
Posted in Medicine, Science on 17th Jul, 2026
by Alexander Muller
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.
Posted in Medicine, Science, Software on 17th Jul, 2026
by Alexander Muller
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.
Posted in Medicine, Science on 16th Jul, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Unlike blood cancers, solid tumors rarely share one universal target, making it hard for engineered immune cells to consistently find and eliminate them.