Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

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If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results.By this fundamental definition, China's ...

For far too long, two specters have been haunting the world of artificial intelligence and warfare, and they both featured in ...

The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

A 2,000-year-old loom found in a Chinese tomb may hold the key to the origins of computing.

An ancient Greek machine built 2,000 years ago shouldn’t exist, yet scientists are still uncovering how this mysterious ...

When scientists used AI to simulate evolution across wildly different environments, they expected patterns. What they found ...

As the war grinds on, sophisticated Russian defenses have pushed Ukraine to develop a frightening new weapon: semiautonomous ...

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.