A new TikTok trend features users doing their makeup to appear like unsettling, humanoid creatures to invoke an uneasy feeling called the “uncanny valley,” which researchers believe is caused by ...

Thomas Gibbons was a kid when he first stepped to the edge of the uncanny valley — that psychic space where the brain boggles at depictions of humans that look almost (but not quite) like the real ...

The appearance of one’s doppelgänger usually presages disaster. Today, a shadow version of oneself exists constantly alongside our flesh-and-bone selves, for the most part concealed under the surface ...

Like countless faculty this post-ChatGPT academic year, I had the eerie sensation of occasionally reading papers that sounded off. To be sure, they weren’t off in the ways a professor’s grading brain ...