Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien ...

The first civilizations emerged when humans stopped living as nomadic hunter-gatherers and began farming. Around 10,000 BC, the agricultural revolution allowed communities to produce surplus food, ...

This experiment explores the point where simple counting stopped being enough and civilization needed a better system to manage growing trade, population, and information. What begins with handmade ...

Current evidence suggests that humans had the capacity for spoken language at least 130,000 years ago. Ever the ...

In an exclusive interview with POLITICO, the outgoing Colombian president argues the war on drugs has failed and fires back ...

AI social networks are where agents can compound their capabilities and coordinate at scale—and in which humans can lose control.

Tourists strolled past the spot, most of them unaware of what it marked. I stepped closer. The stones were unfenced, unsigned, and littered with candy wrappers (an uncommon sight anywhere in Rome, but ...

The robots are here. What can Isaac Asimov's Three Laws teach us about what comes next?

The death of Ayatollah Khamenei should have been a moment of moral clarity. After four decades of theocratic rule, a regime that funded Hamas and Hezbollah, called for death to America and Israel, ...

Parrots are vibrant, charismatic, and fascinating creatures. They have become popular pets, but they are a huge ...

Behind today’s scandals and wars lies a single crisis: a global system where power no longer answers to morality ...

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