A cluster of human neurons in a Baltimore lab learned to play Pong. Researchers are now asking whether it can suffer. Here’s the science and the ethics of organoid intelligence.
Since August 2024, you cannot tour a home with an agent without a signed agreement specifying exactly what you’ll pay them. Here’s what the new forms actually mean.
Geographic and regulatory isolation is producing measurably divergent AI systems. Chinese, European, and American models are not merely different products — they are diverging populations adapting to local pressures.
A private journal from the Camino Francés Meseta — the flat 200km plateau most pilgrims skip by bus. A Stoic meditation on endurance, shortcuts, and what the body teaches the mind when there’s nothing left to distract it.
A skull found in Chad in 2001 may be the oldest known member of the human lineage. A femur found beside it generated a twenty-year argument about who gets to publish it.
A Neanderthal buried in an Iraqi cave was surrounded by medicinal plants. Ancient dental plaque has reopened that debate with chemical evidence. Here’s what we now know.