How Human Is Human?

Ten thousand years ago, human evolution went into overdrive

SpaceX Is Basically a Huge Meme Stock

Court Ordered Critic of Ex-Mayoral Candidate to Stop "Publicly Writing, Printing, or Speaking [Ex-Candidate's] Name"

Growing Up with Wallace Shawn

Astronomers complete largest 3D map of the universe ever made

Brickbat: Cash Is King

Do You Have a Right To Wear a Penis Costume in Public? A 62-Year-Old Alabama Woman Is About To Find Out.

The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for

'The Rich Don't Pay Their Fair Share' and 4 Other Tax Myths That Won't Die

Reforming Therapy: Addressing Bias and Building Trust

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

An idolatrous, consumerist faith in AI that has distorted our thinking about human life and human meaning

A computational parallel to collective intelligence in human groups

AI agents are hiring human 'meatspace workers' — including some scientists

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week

Taking the Battle for Human Attention Seriously

Robert Trivers reveled in explaining the contradictions of the human condition, and he himself was a mess of them. Steven Pinker explains

Author Correction: Rolling back human pluripotent stem cells to an eight-cell embryo-like stage

96 Percent of People Charged With Human Trafficking Are U.S. Citizens

Max Martin on the Enhanced Games, Regulation, and Human Potential

How to Be a Lichen: Adaptive Strategies for the Vulnerabilities of Being Human from Nature’s Tiny Titans of Tenacity