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The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that inspired the cult hit “Pantheon.”

In 1980, Willy Brandt drew a line across the map that still influences how we think about the world.

“What happens if you incorporate an AI? It’s now a legal person, and it can make decisions by itself. So you start having legal persons in the U.S., which are not human, and in many ways are more intelligent than us.”

“Why is it that the quality of our information did not improve over thousands of years? Why is it that very sophisticated societies have been as susceptible as stone age tribes to mass delusion and the rise of destructive ideologies?”

It would get rid of our hazardous, radioactive, and pollutive waste for good, but physics tells us it’s a losing strategy for elimination.

Who decides what’s “normal” and why? As social norms increasingly dissolve, here’s how to find true guidance.

Subtle clues emerge ahead of the attack via changes in scent.

Lab-grown meat may work better as a complement to animal agriculture rather than a replacement of it.

Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.

Neuroscientists and artists alike are making the case that we could transform the world through psychedelics.

Eternal twilight.

No one is teaching us how to be online. That’s a problem.

We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.

Environmental activists want us to feel “flight shame” if we can take a train, instead. But this isn’t entirely realistic, even in Europe.

Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them.

Amplifying the energy within a laser, over and over, won’t get you an infinite amount of energy. There’s a fundamental limit due to physics.

Planets can create nuclear power on their own, naturally, without any intelligence or technology. Earth already did: 1.7 billion years ago.

Digital nomads can fully immerse themselves in their surroundings while advancing their career and stimulating the local economy. But there is one potential downside.

A radical redesign of commercial aircraft, called the flying-V plane, could increase fuel efficiency by 20%, greatly reducing emissions.

In the Saudi Arabian desert, the Al Naslaa rock formation looks completely unnatural. Its perfectly vertical split remains a mystery.

Syllipsimopodi bideni is small (about 12cm in length), has ten arms, suckers, fins, and a triangular pen of hard tissue inside its body for support.

The A.I. system could improve the lives of commercially raised pigs.

With launch costs dropping and enormous numbers of new satellites filling the sky, can’t we just do it all from space?

The early colonists thought they were being pulled by God into a void left by plague.

College doesn’t pay off for a lot of people. So he started a school that doesn’t get paid unless you do.

Nebulae are beautiful, but so is the process of science.

We spend much of our early years learning arithmetic and algebra. What’s the use?

Hubble’s still going strong after 31+ years. James Webb will never make it that long. Every decision that’s made — in both astronomy and in life — comes with its own set of pros and […]

The pandemic has many people questioning whether they ever want to go back to the office.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but no one is entitled to their own facts. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but no one is entitled to their own […]