If aliens are driven mostly by biological imperatives, humanity could be in big trouble if we ever meet technologically advanced beings.
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Robots must identify themselves.
As the skills gap grows, learning and development can help ensure the viability of an organization’s talent well into the future.
People can lose their authentic selves when they don't honestly confront life's potential, according to the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.
It's "the biggest blow to the war on drugs to date," said Kassandra Frederique, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance.
2023's Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.
Their goal is a digital model of the Earth that depicts climate change in all of its complexity.
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The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
It’s all well and good to discuss how our humanity evolved – but what even is humanity?
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Many Americans aren't rejecting spirituality, just practicing it differently.
Regardless of your age, incorporate the piano into your life for better health.
Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.
Our temporal experience of the world is not divided into a series of neat segments, yet that's how we talk about time.
The value of art does not lie in the artwork itself but is instead determined by curators, collectors, critics, and other participants in the modern-day art market.
How do we make sense of an inflection point as we’re living it? How do we build more resilience into ourselves and our systems moving forward? In this interactive session, […]
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Evolution repeatedly hit upon this solution simply because it works.
The first stars took tens or even hundreds of millions of years to form, and then died in the cosmic blink of an eye. Here's how.
When the average person has a "theory," they're just guessing. But for a scientist, a theory is the pinnacle of what we can achieve.
There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.
Non-Western thought is vast and ancient, so why don't some consider it philosophy?
We might be dining on insect-based Christmas pies with robot-harvested algae on the side.
While our world is in a period of indefinite stasis, people’s needs aren’t. Now is the time to become positive disruptors, creating the transformations that need to happen to make […]
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Regardless of political ideology, one of the few things that many people seem to have in common is a moral hypocrisy that arises from a fundamental lack of self-reflection.
Is LK-99 truly a room temperature superconductor? These 4 tests, none of which have yet been passed, will separate fact from fiction.
In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?
Smiling makes us feel happier. If you strike a superhero pose, you’ll feel more assertive and confident in your abilities. We all have a limited pool of self-control that can […]
Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is both completely normal and absolutely remarkable in a number of ways. Here's the story of our cosmic home.
Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here's why we don't buy it.