Themes of academic dread or nerdiness often crop up when writing comes to mind. Until college, I never truly considered the bigger picture: Why do we write, or more aptly, why should we? Even still, ...

Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do about language models. In fall 2024, the best-selling author and historian ...

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After a recent negative car rental experience, I found myself going down a familiar rabbit hole, scrolling through online reviews of the company. The experience was over, and yet, there I was, reading ...

It's time for jokesters and pranksters to try out their best tricks - Wednesday is April Fools' Day. Humorous pranks and tricks have been entertaining the world for centuries. There's nothing quite ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Most of us, if we think about chins at all, do so rarely. But it turns out that chins ...

People say it every day without thinking ― “two o’clock,” “six o’clock,” “eight o’clock sharp.” But what is the purpose of that little “o” and apostrophe? Is it short for something? Why do we only use ...

New research by engineers at CU Boulder aims to get to the bottom of why, as the saying goes, you get a “skip in your step” when you’re happy. The study highlights the central role that dopamine, a ...

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In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of Kyle Chayka’s column, Infinite Scroll. Chayka will return in March. Forty years ago, Bill Weiss, a student at Columbia ...

NASA's Artemis missions, beginning with Artemis I and leading up to Artemis III, will see humanity return to the lunar surface. Set to launch soon, Artemis II will be the first crewed mission beyond ...

FILE - Bad Bunny speaks at the Sony Pictures Entertainment presentation at CinemaCon 2022 in Las Vegas on April 25, 2022. The Puerto Rican superstar was named Artist of the Year, thanks to his latest ...