Welcome to Season 3 of Entanglements! In our first episode, we discuss neural implants and AI with Judy Illes, a professor of neurology and neuroethics at the University of British Columbia, and Josep...
Chimeras, or animals with human cells and tissues, are not new, and researchers have long used them to gain insights into diseases and even as a potential source of transplantable organs. But the rese...
Opinion | The biotech and pharma industries are pouring billions of dollars into AI-driven drug discovery and development. But the genomic data used to train AI models are often incomplete, conta...
Photo Essay | From sampling hydrothermal vents and abandoned mines to lab experiments that replicate Mars’ atmosphere, scientists are using what we know about life on Earth to understand how it m...
Scientists are trying to create new life, whether to understand how biology first developed on Earth, or design new cells from scratch. But life hasn’t happened — at least not yet. And questions arou...
Human embryo models mimic the earliest development stages; they could offer a glimpse of the first weeks of pregnancy — a mysterious period for which natural embryos are seldom available — and potenti...
In “Natural Intelligence & the Logic of Consciousness,” neuroscientist Antonio Damasio argues against the conventional theory that consciousness stems from high-level brain function and cognition...
Opinion | AI is being integrated into every part of the scientific process, including education, publishing, and the research itself. What does it mean if every component of the enterprise gets r...
Is it possible that AI is — or might one day become — truly intelligent? Undark posed the question to five experts in linguistics, computer science, cognitive science, and psychology. They offered ver...
The brain isn’t the self — consciousness is intimately linked with the human body. And if consciousness is the body’s way of knowing itself, then it is the living form in its entirety that shoul...