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A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.

Participants were also more likely to see God as old than young, and male rather than female.

Cosmologists behind braneworld theories see our universe as being a part of a complex inter-dimensional world.

Should we create a new interpretation of masculinity or build a gender neutral world?   

The Achilles heel of AI is an inability to discriminate between sources of knowledge that are trustworthy and those that are deceitful and manipulative.

Robert Dear’s murders at a Planned Parenthood are only the latest in a long string of terrorist attacks by Americans. 

In the avalanche of analysis and speculation about Chief Justice Roberts’ stunning decision to side with the Supreme Court’s liberal wing to uphold Obama’s healthcare law, one strain paints Roberts […]

Every May brings with it a new crop of college graduation speeches. This spring, few (maybe none) were as though-provoking as multimedia artist Laurie Anderson’s at the School of Visual […]

The internet went crazy Sunday night after Black In America: The New Promised Land- Silicon Valley. Twitter, the place on the internet where the wired segment of Afro America goes […]

This summer at The Phillips Collection there’s a different kind of colorblindness going on. White is the “new black,” or at least the color telling the most interesting stories in […]

Michelangelo spent most of his life on a massive guilt trip. When he painted The Crucifixion of St. Peter in 1550 (pictured), he inserted not one, but two self-portraits. To […]

Science writer Matt Ridley joins us to discuss how “Darwin’s strangest idea” makes us all a bit feather-brained (in a good way).

A new bill introduced into the US Senate claims to make us safer. Instead, it would destroy all virology research, and for no real cause.

With a flurry of threats to scientists, science funding, and health policy, the USA now faces a crisis reminiscent of Soviet-era Lysenkoism.

One alchemist’s search for a whiz-bang method to produce gold unlocked the central science instead.

Sixty years ago, the Soviet Union was way ahead of the USA in the space race. Then one critical event changed everything.

A crowdsourced “final exam” for AI promises to test LLMs like never before. Here’s how the idea, and its implementation, dooms us to fail.

Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.

The true story of the shot that “reverberated through England” when science collided head-on with religion.

In the fight between head and heart, psychologists will win.

Digital analyses of Enlightenment-era letters are teaching us a thing or two about Locke, Voltaire, and others.

A physicist, a psychologist, and a philosopher walk into a bar and discuss a framework for thinking better in the 21st century.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been a controversial diagnosis since it was first described, back in the 1940s.

In logic, ‘reductio ad absurdum’ shows how flawed arguments fall apart. Our absurd Universe, however, often defies our intuitive reasoning.

These scrolls are the only remaining intact library of ancient Rome — and they will crumble at a touch.

For thousands of years, humanity had no idea how far away the stars were. In the 1600s, Newton, Huygens, and Hooke all claimed to get there.

Although many of Einstein’s papers revolutionized physics, there’s one Einsteinian advance, generally, that towers over all the rest.

Defy conventional startup wisdom by charting a steady and impactful path to success.

A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.

The corporate unicorn was yesterday — now we should consider the wisdom of black and white stripes.