#Isaac Asimov

Author: Science News Staff / Source: Science News Educational robots could help students learn new skills and good study habits. But researchers still have a lot to learn about the potential risks involved when young kids keep close company with such robots, Maria Temming reported in “Robots are

Author: Mike Colagrossi / Source: Big Think The simulation argument was first put forth in a paper published in 2003 by philosopher Nick Bostrom. Bostrom assigns less than a 50 percent probability that we’re living in a simulated universe. Some physicists believe that we can test this

Source: Good News Network On this day 68 years ago, “I, Robot” by the writer and biochemist Isaac Asimov was first published. A collection of science fiction short stories and essays woven together into a novel, I, Robot was the first time Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics appeared, making robots

Author: Matt Gilligan / Source: did you know? You may have heard of Skull and Bones and other secret societies where members are sworn to a lifetime of silence about the group’s sketchy activities, but it’s doubtful you’ve heard of these other, even more secret associations. Or at least they’re

Author: Tom Siegfried / Source: Science News Half a century ago, if you asked any teenage science fan to name the best popular science writers, you’d get two names: Isaac Asimov and George Gamow. Asimov was prominent not only for his nonfiction science books, but also for his science fiction.