JWST was built to see the first stars. It is now reading the chemical signatures of alien atmospheres. Here’s what the findings actually mean — and where the biosignature threshold sits.
Kenneth Miller defeated Intelligent Design in federal court and still believes in God. Richard Dawkins has never quite known what to do with him. Their asymmetric debate is the most scientifically substantive faith-science exchange of the internet era.
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.
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 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.