The Thucydides Trap leads us to believe a U.S.-China war is inevitable. But is a 2,400-year-old school of thought really what the U.S. should base its foreign policy on?
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Geneticists figure out how elephants keep from getting cancer.
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A much-needed “causal revolution” has arrived in Judea Pearl’s ‘The Book of Why’. But despite vast improvements over “trad stats”, there’s cause for concern over logic-losing numbers.
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A new study finds that even minutes of meditation or mindfulness increases your cognitive capabilities.
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Why is only 10% of the population left-handed? There are a few new scientific clues pointing to the answer.
Why do great minds argue for positions we find repulsive? Today, we find out why Robert Nozick was a libertarian.
China is investing a gargantuan amount of money in Africa, but it’s leaving many in the global community concerned as to why.
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The pool of things that “AI Can’t Do” appears to be steadily shrinking.
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The Academy is trying to win back viewers with a reboot, one that brings a new ‘popular film’ category, a shorter broadcast time and an earlier date to the annual ceremony.
The Parker Solar Probe is the first time a spacecraft will ever get this close to the sun.
Plant cognitive ecologist Monica Gagliano talks about the challenges facing serious scientific research into plant intelligence.
In his new book, Nick Chater writes that what we see is what we get.
China has for years been using robotic doves—drones that look and fly like real birds—to surveil the skies over its provinces, marking one of the most peculiar parts of the nation’s widespread civilian surveillance program.
How worried should we be about bacteria with an alcohol tolerance? Be afraid, be very afraid.
One moment, every particle in the Universe was massless. Then, they weren’t anymore. Here’s how it happened. In the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang, the Universe was filled […]
“To promote the development of a commercial asteroid resources industry for outer space in the United States and to increase the exploration and utilization of asteroid resources in outer space.”
Starbucks isn’t accepting bitcoin—yet.
We all know who Confucius was, but what did he teach?
On Monday morning, YouTube removed Infowars and The Alex Jones Channel from its platform, following similar bans from Apple, Spotify and Facebook.
A new poll highlights the dramatic influence of partisan thinking in the U.S. with regards to key principles of international law.
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