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The name Unabomber has haunted American true crime for decades, yet few people can explain where it came from. Netflix's new ...

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A huge genomic and fossil study suggests bats first evolved in Europe around 65 to 60 million years ago before spreading ...

The idea of a machine surpassing human intelligence across virtually every intellectual domain once seemed relegated to the ...

Everywhere you look, something is being called “woke”. In recent weeks the term has been applied to ultraviolent video game Grand Theft Auto VI (accused of being less masculine than its ...

Two studies published in a single week are rewriting what scientists think they know about disease — one about where outbreaks get reported, and ...

On the right is a depiction of an early Homo human ancestor characterized by relatively greater bone strength of the femur in the thigh compared to the humerus in the arm. To the left is a depiction ...

Here, T&C’s picks for the best books to read this October. In The Names of the World, Kawai Strong Washburn’s ...

As artificial intelligence forces us to rethink what it means to be conscious, philosophers have become guides to some of ...

Today’s urgent questions about artificial intelligence, consciousness and morality are all the rage. This week, we examine Anthropic’s efforts to teach Claude virtue, the theological implications of ...

From a Byrds song about seasons to Gambit's Queen of Hearts, the season one finale is built around water, reflections and the ...