It shouldn't be necessary to say that Greenland has a right to govern itself, but when Trump is about to destroy NATO, you ...

Celebrities can turn almost anything into a must-try beauty treatment—even facials with shock-value nicknames like “salmon sperm” and “penis” facials. But behind the viral labels are lab-made ...

With short-form video now dominant on social media, researchers are racing to understand how the highly engaging, algorithm-driven format may be reshaping the brain. From TikTok to Instagram Reels and ...

The Algorithm Accountability Act (S.3193), proposed this week by Sens. John Curtis and Mark Kelly, is an incredibly important piece of legislation that would amend Section 230 of the Communications ...

E.l.f. Beauty launched a social-first campaign, “The Sound of Kindness,” in partnership with skin care company Beekman 1802 and research partner Kindness.org, per details shared with sister ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

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Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. TikTok’s algorithm, which shapes what more than a billion users see, has developed an almost mystical reputation for ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Since rolling out the redesign of its Firefly app in April, Adobe has been releasing major updates for the generative AI hub at a near monthly clip. Today, the company is introducing a handful of new ...