A new railway will switch the Baltic region’s train gauge from Soviet to standard European — a megaproject with political, economic, and military dimensions.
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“You can find examples of really big environmental problems that we’ve already solved.” Climate change is solvable, argues Hannah Ritchie.
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Testing is an attempt to measure intelligence. But is intelligence really what’s getting measured? A neuroscientist weighs in:
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Beer before wine and you’ll feel fine? Well, it depends.
Even with the best technology imaginable, you’d probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.
The transformational change driven by AI will elevate neurodiversity inclusion as an organizational asset, argues Maureen Dunne.
Quantum wormholes are mathematically possible — but might also be physically impossible. Physicist Janna Levin explains Hawking’s famous information paradox.
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Gravity defies quantum mechanics. What does that mean for a theory of everything?
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The Te’omim Cave in the Jerusalem Hills is filled with skulls and oil lamps — objects a new study says may have been used in dark rituals.
Crypto is a lot of things, but it isn’t a currency. “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary, a.k.a. “Mr. Wonderful,” breaks down what it would take to get there.
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Lost in a building or underwater? A new muon-based navigation system could be your guide.
A proponent of panpsychism argues moral truth is inherent in consciousness.
The biggest lingering question about GPT-4 isn’t if it’s going to destroy jobs or take over the world. Instead, it is this: Do we trust AI programmers to tell society what is true?
X marks the spot. The Dutch town of Ommeren has been swamped by detectorists armed with shovels looking for $20-million treasure.
We have two descriptions of the Universe that work perfectly well: General Relativity and quantum physics. Too bad they don’t work together.
The minimum wage is a popular policy, but it’s not the only way governments have tried to help workers secure a decent living.
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Seattle slowly raised its minimum wage to $15 per hour. The results provide fuel for both sides of the minimum wage debate.
Social media distorts the reality of the public sphere.
The attitude we take to Will Smith’s slap will mirror our attitudes to violence, masculinity, and protecting others more generally.
A new method of extracting rare-earth elements could put us on the track toward a circular economy.
About 150 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod came down with a respiratory infection. The rest is history…or is it?
America’s war in Southeast Asia is fading fast from memory. These maps offer a horrific reminder.
Social conflicts can leave molecular marks on animals, according to recent research on the ant species Harpegnathos saltator.
Einstein hated “spooky action at a distance,” but much to his chagrin, quantum mechanics remains as spooky as ever.
Metal-like materials have been discovered in a very strange place.
Noise causes stress. For our ancestors, it meant danger: thunder, animal roars, war cries, triggering a ‘fight or run’ reaction.
In recent years, women have made incredible strides in the business world. Forty-one women currently lead Fortune 500 companies. While that remains an unacceptably low percentage (8 percent) overall, it […]
The independent news collective is teaching a new generation of journalists and citizens to spot the stories in plain sight.