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Now that love has been liberated, it seems to have become more complicated and more illusive than ever. Alain de Botton explains.
There are plenty of engineering obstacles, and those can be overcome. But you cannot change the laws of physics, and those matter too.
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Toxic positivity isn’t optimism. It’s denial. Historian Kate Bowler explains why our obsession with “good vibes only” is making it harder to cope.
The fundamental building blocks of reality are indivisible: quanta that cannot be split or divided. Our understanding remains incomplete.
What’s in a number? Only a vanishingly small slice of your life, it turns out.
Long after the last star burns out, the Universe will experience its end state: a heat death. Will everything prior then be meaningless?
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Alain de Botton argues that our romantic lives are shaped more by the emotional patterns we learned in childhood than by destiny.
Science fiction romanticized Mars as a place of adventure and future settlement; science tells a very different story.
Before we formed stars, atoms, elements, or even got rid of our antimatter, the Big Bang made neutrinos. And we finally found them.
A big open question in 21st-century science is how life began here on Earth. The metabolism-first scenario just might be the best one.
The “dystopian” biotech imagined in these novels is now changing real lives for the better.
From global DNA screening standards to safeguards for benchtop synthesizers and AI tools, a new biosecurity playbook is taking shape.
Technology, shifting rules, and human ambition push athletes beyond biology’s perceived limits.
Books don’t just stimulate the mind — they trigger physiological changes throughout the body.
New biotech tools could clean up everything from construction to agriculture.
Sixty years ago, a little-known philosopher challenged how science understands life. His perspective is finding new relevance in the age of artificial intelligence.
Speculative evolution explores the strange paths natural selection might have taken — and what that means for humans.
Some sci-fi aliens are wildly implausible. Others aren’t so far-fetched.
By treating the human body as an information system, scientists are using AI to simulate cells, visualize hidden biology, and detect disease at its earliest — and most preventable — stages.
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