A new AI benchmark suggests the singularity—the moment machines surpass human intelligence—may arrive in under 2,000 days.

In recent years, we’ve discovered so many astounding things about the universe, it’s almost impossible to choose just one to give the title “most astounding fact.” For starters, we know that our ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. In this episode of The Astounding Pop Mech Show, we dive deep into "Cousin LUCA," who likely lived on Earth only 400 ...

In 1944 the science-fiction magazine Astounding published a short story called “Deadline.” In it, the author, Cleve Cartmill, described a superbomb very much like what was then being developed in New ...

On the fourth floor of the MIT Student Center, roughly 60,000 books and thousands of magazines crowd the narrow, overstuffed shelves of the MIT Science Fiction Society Library. Mobiles and paper ...

Adrian has been a tech enthusiast since the 90s with a particular passion for gaming that developed thanks to his first gaming outings on Pong, Zork and Space Invaders. In the years that followed he ...

Robert Kirkman is a writer of many talents. He arguably started the current zombie craze with his superbly-crafted series The Walking Dead. Then he took it to its utmost level of hilarity and ...

Jeremy Lin and the art of being astounding. Astounding is not a skill, or a talent, or luck: it’s different than that. Being astounding is an art. And right now, we have a perfect example of an artist ...