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Many galaxies really are ultra-distant, but some are just intrinsically red or dusty. Only with spectroscopy can JWST tell which is which.
This spring, a U.S. and Chinese team announced that it had successfully grown, for the first time, embryos that included both human and monkey cells.
The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and consider it to be competent.
Jains believe that karma weighs the soul down. This can be overcome through extreme asceticism, in which one slowly withdraws from life.
“Our risk-benefit analysis showed that benefits exceeded procedural risks… by up to 200 to 1.”
Though difficult to watch, films like “Shoah” and “Life of Crime” cover topics that should not be ignored.
Arguments don’t have to be about winning or losing; they can help us build trust despite disagreeing.
Man does not live by measurement alone.
Baruch Spinoza suggests how to lead a virtuous and blessed life.
Pokémon has people wandering the world to enslave wild and magical creatures so they can fight in painful blood sports. What’s fun about that?
“If you’re training an AI to optimize for a task, and deception is a good way for it to complete the task, then there’s a good chance that it will use deception.”
It’s better to pursue moral actions instead of the ephemeral state of happiness, according to the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
The threats Mars astronauts face — and how NASA is working to solve them.
Like it or not, we are the descendants of busybodies.
Beautiful people really know how to catch a break.
And is anyone protecting children’s data?
People appear to have no qualms about sharing their locations, struggles, and relationships online.
The Greeks were among the first to move beyond “primitive money” and establish an official currency, transforming their trade, government, and even philosophy.
Technology of the future is shaped by the questions we ask and the ethical decisions we make today.
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The psychology of alien contact largely revolves around the concept of “otherness.” We need to learn to be comfortable around strange things.
Our moral attitudes about sex and drugs share a genetic basis, suggests a recent study that examined the attitudes of more than 5,000 twins.
An interview with CRISPR co-discoverer and Nobel Prize-winner Dr. Jennifer Doudna.
There’s more to miracles than turning water into wine.
We don’t understand why loneliness is bad for us if all we can say is that it hurts.
The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
Wander into the deep recesses of the mind and never return the same with these existentialist books.
Though ultimately incorrect, the ancient Greek philosophers blazed a conceptual trail for humankind to understand the nature of reality.
When we are more focused on the good things we enjoy in life, we have more to live for.
Thinking about the problem of meaning is unsettling because it introduces us to a list of solutions that all feel a bit insane.