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An AI expert just stated that it will be considered socially normal to have sex with robots by the year 2040. Sure, you may be having sex with a robot–but what will this mean for your human relationship?

Even arch rationalists, people who think very carefully, are swayed by the presence of others.

They’re in our brains, hearts, and blood — but what are they doing to us?

Earth, the only rocky planet with a large, massive satellite, is greatly affected by the Moon. Destroying it would cause 7 major changes.

His crime was so great, he was not only sentenced to death but his name was to be erased from memory.

Ice harvesters once made a living from frozen lakes and ponds, but the work was strenuous and dangerous. Then refrigeration changed everything.

The debate goes back at least 400 years.

As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.

As the stream of AI-generated art turns into a deluge, NFTs could become a cornerstone of the Virtual Renaissance.

Just like with AI, people worried about job security and the spread of disinformation. Machines were destroyed and book merchants were chased out of town.

When Mongol traders came knocking, Sultan Muhammad II shaved off their beards. Three years later, his whole empire was annihilated.

When boredom creeps in, many of us turn to social media. But that may be preventing us from reaching a transformative level of boredom.

Deep secrets don’t explode. They do something worse, explains Michael Slepian.

The acceptance of fashionable nonsense is a threat to Enlightenment values and public health.

Some of the coastal areas were not repopulated for millennia afterward, showing that there was a long-lasting memory of this tragic event.

Smashing things together at unprecedented energies sounds dangerous. But it’s nothing the Universe hasn’t already seen, and survived.

Spotty connectivity isn’t going to jeopardize Ukraine’s drone attacks.

Forty Starlink satellites were destroyed earlier this year in a geomagnetic storm.

A study proposes that an ancient trading network, called the Hopewell tradition, may have been wiped out by what is known as a cosmic airburst.

What was once an art form has been drained of color and personality by ruthless algorithms. Can we make chess human again?

On the largest scales, galaxies don’t simply clump together, but form superclusters. Too bad they don’t remain bound together.

While we can see many solar storms coming, some are “stealthy.” A new study shows how to detect them.

The neoliberal call for more ‘choice’, seems hard to resist.

NASA is scrapping its Apollo-era launcher platform to make room for new infrastructure that will support upcoming Artemis missions.

The expansion of the universe is speeding up—contrary to what many physicists expected. A “heat death” is coming, but it’s not what you think.

The act of observing doesn’t just determine a previously indeterminate state, but can destroy information, too. Imagine that you’re a scientist attempting to understand reality at a fundamental level. How […]

Our ultimate fate depends on something we’ve barely begun to measure. One of the biggest mysteries in all of physics is dark energy. According to our best observations, the Universe cannot […]

The largest moon around our last planet didn’t originate with Neptune. When it comes to the moons of our Solar System, there’s only one planet that doesn’t fit in with our […]

Stone stackers enjoy the practice as a peaceful challenge, but scientists warn that moving small stones has mountainous consequences.

The importance of finding and shaping learning communities.