Reproduction
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
Opinion
Artificial Intelligence
What an Endless Conversation with Werner Herzog Can Teach Us about AI
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
Consciousness
Free Will Is Only an Illusion if You Are, Too
New research findings, combined with philosophy, suggest free will is real but may not operate in the ways people expect
Biotech
Gene Drives Could Fight Malaria and Other Global Killers but Might Have Unintended Consequences
A new technology could wipe out whole species. Is it a magic bullet or a genetic atom bomb?
Astronomy
A Recently Discovered Gas Cloud Near Andromeda Stumps Astronomers
Clues to the origin of this enormous cloud of gas have been maddeningly vague
Sports
Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football
The “terrifyingly ordinary” nature of football’s violence disproportionately affects Black men
Inequality
The U.S. Could Help Solve Its Poverty Problem with a Universal Basic Income
A universal basic income wouldn’t lead to adults leaving their jobs and could lift millions of children into a brighter future
Public Health
What Rice-Farming Cultures Can Teach Us about Pandemic Preparedness
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
Planetary Science
Volcanic Activity on Mars Upends Red Planet Assumptions
A mass of moving material on Mars called a mantle plume may be causing marsquakes and volcanism
Psychology
Your Response to Stress Improves as You Grow Older
In good news, our reactions to stressful events improve as we age. But living in uncertain times will still take a toll
