Culture

The candy-colored drugs are the latest Halloween scare, but history suggests such fears are overblown

A cellular version of the computer game challenges assumptions about intelligence

An expert explains how numbers can mislead and what she’s doing to help people understand them better

A moral movement called longtermism, which focuses on protecting humanity’s future, dwells too much on artificial intelligence and not enough on war

Why evolutionary biology and social justice belong together, the Silicon Valley fatalism that’s ruining our planet, and more

To safeguard fragile cultural objects, some groups are replicating them with digital models

By enacting simple laws that make guns safer and harder to get, we can prevent killings like the ones in Uvalde and Buffalo

An ecological model suggests islands are better at preserving literature as well as species

Using software designed to align DNA sequences, scientists cataloged the mutations that arose as folk songs evolved

People should be skeptical of big claims based on only one study and dig a little deeper

Science in meter and verse

Research is a self-correcting process, but that fact is often lost on the public