Throw oneself into the weeds of A.I. safety policy? Abandon all political engagement and join a monastery? I’m trying to figure out the answers myself (some columns are written for the columnist as ...

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Jupiter, long treated as the solar system’s fixed point of planetary normalcy, has just been knocked off that pedestal. New measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft show the gas giant is slightly ...

Michael Sandel was ignored by a generation of political optimists. Now he is searching for a way out of the mess he saw ...

Fusion researchers are now firing energy bursts so brief that they make a human blink look leisurely. In the latest experiments, a single pulse that lasts a tiny fraction of a second is being used to ...

Roshi Nasehi speaks to Iranians at home and in the UK about what the left anti-imperialists hijacking the protest movement ...

Software development is getting a boost from AI that understands code context, speeding up creation and improving quality.

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A new imaging breakthrough combines ultrasound and light-based techniques to generate vivid 3D images that show both tissue ...

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