Are we on the verge of creating synthetic life?

How Not to Waste Your Life

‘What are we doing here?’ The polymaths who searched for the meaning of life

New AI model could cut the costs of developing protein drugs

The New Global Order

Are we hard-wired for infidelity?

Open Thread

Dogs Can Have Dementia, Too

Pulsar Found Near the Center of the Milky Way Could Test Einstein’s Theories

Giant Pythons Once Roamed Prehistoric Taiwan

Spaceflight literally moves your brain

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

Sci-Fi Cloaking Technology Takes a Step Closer to Reality With Synthetic Skin Like an Octopus

The war between writers and editors can be long, brutish, and nasty. "Every semicolon was a matter of life or death”

The Monarchs, Music, and the Meaning of Life: The Most Touching Deathbed Love Letter Ever Written

Sleep and the Meaning of Life: Fernando Pessoa on the Existential Dimension of the Horizontal Hours

A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want

Daily briefing: Octopus-inspired synthetic ‘skin’ changes appearance on demand

Using synthetic biology and AI to address global antimicrobial resistance threat

Darwin’s Greatest Regret and His Deathbed Reflection on What Makes Life Worth Living

The novelist George Sand dressed like a man, took a male name and went through lovers like a rake. The life and the work cannot be disentangled