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Blink Twice to Quell a Quasar: Carl Sagan on Superstition

Growing up in Bulgaria, in a city teeming in stray dogs and cars, I was deeply d...

Things Become Other Things: Walking, Forgiveness, and B...

Steps are events, experiments, miniature rebellions against gravity and chance. ...

Wonder, Play, and How to Be More Alive

We build our lives around structures of certainty — houses to live in, marriages...

Dawn: A Watercolor Ode to the Primeval Conversation Bet...

“You have found an intermediate space… where the passing moment lingers, and bec...

Rewilding the Human Spirit in the Age of Moral Colonial...

The prisons we choose to live inside hardly ever look like prisons while we are ...

Decoding the Mystery of Intuition: Pioneering Philosoph...

“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can...

Orcas and the Price of Consciousness: Lessons in Love a...

Marbling the waters of every ocean with their billows of black and white, orcas ...

Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and consp...

If you think climate change is a hoax, you might believe wind turbines poison gr...

An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues

Words you'll never speak still cause activity in the brain's speech centers.

Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections li...

The bacterium is known to live in Mississippi, but the new cases may expand its ...

College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidenta...

Hobbyist training AI on Victorian texts gets an unexpected history lesson from h...

Trump says US will take 10% stake in Intel because CEO ...

Intel deal could pave the way for the US to profit off CHIPS Act funding.

Developer gets 4 years for activating network “kill swi...

Disgruntled developer was caught after naming the "kill switch" after himself.

4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks T...

4chan asks US to "invoke all legal levers" in fight against Online Safety Act.

Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by...

The company claims that a text query now burns the equivalent of 9 seconds of TV.

US military’s X-37B spaceplane stays relevant with laun...

The X-37B spaceplane is flying missions few would have foreseen when the program...

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