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Youth Activists Push Schools’ Retirement Fund to Divest

Redford Center Stories highest distinction film focuses on the financial side of fighting climate change.

June 25, 2021

Same or Different? The Question Flummoxes Neural Networks

For all their triumphs, AI systems can’t seem to generalize the concepts of “same” and “different.” Without that, researchers worry, the quest to create truly intelligent machines may be hopeless.

June 24, 2021

Are Crabs Truly Crabby?

Humans have long projected their insecurities and ill tempers onto animals, including crabs. Can science help us tell fact from fable?

June 24, 2021

When a Good Scientist Is the Wrong Source

How a bad “fact” helped the lab-leak hypothesis go viral.

June 23, 2021

The Cancer Custodians

To beat our worst enemy, we must first let it grow.

June 23, 2021

The Math of Living Things

Exploring the intersection of physical and biological laws.

June 23, 2021

The History of Locker-Room Talk

Why men put down other men by attacking their masculinity.

June 16, 2021

Is the Universe Open-Ended?

An intriguing proposal about what makes reality tick under the surface.

June 16, 2021

My 3 Greatest Revelations

The author on writing his new book, “The Ascent of Information.”

June 16, 2021

Heeding the Water’s Call

Allison Wallis’s disability rendered the ocean off-limits. But the adaptive surfing movement says they can get everybody—of any ability—in the water.

June 15, 2021