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The power to create convincing deepfake icons could destabilize society.

An evolutionary biologist argues that animals could feel more pain than humans.

These tiny living robots can now replicate and evolve—and be put to work.

The theory of physics that showed me a new reality.

Evolution favors less work and more leisure.

Algorithms that use the brain’s communication signal can now work on analog neuromorphic chips, which closely mimic our energy-efficient brains.

But what if it’s telling them a false story?

Evolution uses all its tricks to make sure we procreate. But love in humans is a many-splendored thing.

New research hints at what makes Earth’s moon special.

How the modern world arose from imaginary numbers.

The same phenomenon by which an opera singer can shatter a wineglass also underlies the very existence of subatomic particles.

Three mathematicians show, for the first time, how to form a square with the same area as a circle by cutting them into interchangeable pieces that can be visualized.