“If you ask a computer, it will say, most of the time you want to either be raising or folding, right? You want to take an aggressive action or quit. I think this is a great metaphor for lots of things in real life, too.”

A neuroscientist, a psychologist, and a psychotherapist discuss how emotions are stories built from old experiences.

The Juno spacecraft, orbiting and imaging Jupiter since 2016, is still succeeding. Without a further extension, the mission now faces death.

The African Union argues that the Mercator projection distorts the continent, both in size and global attention.

In "That Book Is Dangerous," author Adam Szetela examines the rise of the “Sensitivity Era” in publishing and how outrage campaigns try to control what books authors can write and readers can read.

The predictions of evolutionary theorists and current advances in “multimodal AI” offer strong clues to the future of employment.

With several seemingly incompatible observations, cosmology faces many puzzles. Could early, supermassive stars be the unified solution?