In rethinking whether AI is sentient, we are asking bigger questions about cognition, human-machine interaction and even our own consciousness As more people use chatbots and artificial-intelligence assistants for everyday tasks, a curious phenomenon is emerging: a growing number of users view their chatbots as not merely intelligent tools but as conscious entities that are somehow alive. People fill online forums and podcasts with anecdotes of feeling deeply “understood” by their digital

What can life evolve into after a million years of total darkness, crushing pressure and isolation? The answer may be lurking under Antarctica

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From interstellar visitors to alien radio signals, scientists are asking a question once confined to science fiction: what happens when we finally make contact? September 01, 2026 In the summer of 2025, astronomers spotted a visitor from beyond our Solar System coursing through the blackness of space. Only the third interstellar object ever detected by our telescopes, it was picked up by an instrument in Chile designed to watch the skies for asteroids that might collide with Earth. The object

Toronto-based Meissner has secured the backing of deep-tech executives like Dominion Dynamics CEO Eliot Pence and General Fusion CEO Greg Twinney as it tries to use AI to develop new superconductors with applications from quantum computing to nuclear fusion.

Meissner draws support from tech luminaries, including CEOs of Xanadu, General Fusion and Ada

Tim Cook isn’t just passing the torch, he’s handing over one of the corporate world’s biggest successes

Is it possible we’re living in a virtual simulation? Professor Catherine Heymans, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, does the maths on whether anything is actually real

Today is Tim Cook’s last day as Apple CEO, with John Ternus set to take over tomorrow. To mar

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could shed light on some of the deepest questions researchers have about dark energy and the universe

Little known outside tech circles, John Ternus is taking on one of Silicon Valley’s top roles

U.S. President Donald Trump's push to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America" underscores Canada's reliance on U.S. tech giants like Google and Apple.

August 10, 2026, 5:05 AM ET Outgoing Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. On Wednesday, at the end of the day in London, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis had some news for employees. Hassabis, DeepMind’s cofounder and the lab’s longtime steward, was giving up the CEO title and moving to a chairman role, they said. Minutes later, the news broke that longtime chief scientist Jeff Dean and several other prominent researchers were leaving the company. Staff in

We love bananas, but without serious technical efforts, the crop faces collapse worldwide.

To help the company reach new heights, John Ternus must take it beyond the supply chain mastery of Tim Cook, who built it into a $5 trillion colossus

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a mission to probe dark energy, hunt for distant worlds and transform our view of the universe Science Quickly Scientific American Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. We’re kicking this week off by focusing on one major science news story: the launch of NASA’s next great space observatory. Early in the morning on Sunday, August 30, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched from

With nearly half of all Canadians identifying as AI skeptics — 10 points above the global average — Dave Borrelli says hesitation is no longer an option.

In its hunt for dark matter, the XENONnT experiment has detected the rare, feeble glow of neutrinos smacking into electrons This photograph shows the dry interior of a large water tank, which when filled shields the massive xenon-flooded detector of the XENONnT dark matter experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. Several times over the past few years, deep beneath a mountain in central Italy, a neutrino, the lightest and most elusive particle we know, careened into an electron,

If our institutions acted, they could hasten the ongoing exodus from services peddled by allies of the Trump administration.

Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others') turbines have gone in.

New X-ray approach reveals how charge and surrounding water reorganize during a fundamental chemical reaction.

OpenAI plans to end model access through Cursor on Nov. 12, citing concerns after SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of the coding startup.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope separated from the SpaceX Falcon Heavy's second stage.

48 are from U.S. in first phase of $1.7B Canada Global Impact+ Research Talent Initiative. And yes, Trump plays a role.