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A Google engineer has been placed on paid administrative leave for violating policy after he claimed the company's artificial intelligence (AI) appears to have a consciousness and perhaps even a soul.

Quantum theory boggles the mind. As science journalist John Horgan writes, quantum theory is “science’s most precise, powerful theory of reality. It has predicted countless experiments, spawned countless applications. The trouble is physicists and philosophers disagree over what it means, that is, what it says about how the world works.”  

A new paper poses one of the strongest challenges yet to the idea that all life shares common chemistry.

A nonprofit organization released the report, which claimed "that the NIH is actively funding over $27 million of research approved to use Human Fetal Tissue, also known as HFT." 

A prominent theologian and a well-known bioethicist say they see no ethical problems with the world’s first successful pig-to-human heart transplant – and they both believe the field holds much promise for the future of medical science.

To put it bluntly, the Bible is not anti-science. Rather, the Bible explains why science works. And, every once in a while, the Bible offers an insight that sheds further light on an unsolved question of science. That seems to be the case with the Assyrian destruction of Lachish, an event recorded in the book of Kings. The accurate Biblical accounting of this event has provided scientists with a reliable anchor from which to better answer two tricky dilemmas: one having to do with geophysics and the other with archeology.

The concept of a “multiverse” may be growing popular in movies and within the academic community, but Christian apologist and author Ken Ham says the idea has no basis in science or Scripture.

Israeli archeologists have discovered a rare 1,700-year-old gold ring that includes an image of a shepherd that is thought to represent Jesus and likely belonged to an early Christian, the Israel Antiquities Authority said this week.

In a new USA Today column, a well-known doctor says that he believes in the healing power of prayer and thinks it can have a “significant” impact on a patient’s health if partnered with science and medicine.

A new comet has appeared in the Earth's atmosphere, and viewers have only one more chance to see it this month before it is gone forever.