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Artist Tracey Emin: I’m Doing What I Think Is Right

Smuggling literature behind the Iron Curtain took ingenuity. Think microscopic copies of Solzhenitsyn nestled in a baby’s diaper

The True History of the American Revolution

Literary culture has changed, often for the worse. But that doesn't mean the world is also getting worse

U.S. crop genome sequencing gets $180 million boost

“Consensus Truth” in the Age of AI

Check Out the Mouthparts on This New Prehistoric Insect

Department of Energy expands ‘Genesis Mission’ to boost AI, awarding larger grants

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Did These Microbes Eat A Lot of the Fossil Record?

Federal Judge Halts Minnesota's Prediction Market Ban, Signaling Other States' Efforts Might Be Illegal Too

Extreme Heat Comes for the Red Chile Capital of Pakistan

Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains

The End of Oak Street Is a Nasty, Effective Exercise in Dino Terror

The ominous ‘fire clouds’ or ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ seen in France for the first time

How Art Invented Humanity

Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions

China’s Platform State and the AI Race

Planning system ensures a robot’s flight path will remain collision-free

Federal Court Slaps Down Utah's VPN Restrictions