
Antiabortion Heartbeat Bills Are neither Morally nor Legally Sound
A beating heart is neither a necessary nor sufficient standard to determine the start of life, making antiabortion heartbeat bills morally and legally wrong
A beating heart is neither a necessary nor sufficient standard to determine the start of life, making antiabortion heartbeat bills morally and legally wrong
An AI-generated conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek is definitely entertaining, but it also illustrates the crisis of misinformation beginning to befall us
New research findings, combined with philosophy, suggest free will is real but may not operate in the ways people expect
A new technology could wipe out whole species. Is it a magic bullet or a genetic atom bomb?
Clues to the origin of this enormous cloud of gas have been maddeningly vague
The “terrifyingly ordinary” nature of football’s violence disproportionately affects Black men
A universal basic income wouldn’t lead to adults leaving their jobs and could lift millions of children into a brighter future
Societies that farm rice over wheat tend to be more tight-knit and interdependent, which could protect them from pandemic viruses like the one behind COVID
A mass of moving material on Mars called a mantle plume may be causing marsquakes and volcanism
In good news, our reactions to stressful events improve as we age. But living in uncertain times will still take a toll
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