Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Explore America's fascination with aliens and UFOs, revealing political implications, historical encounters, and ongoing debates about extraterrestrial life.

The odds are that life is out there – but rather than little green men, it may look more like hydrothermal vent tubeworms ...

While idea may violate Occam’s razor, “it remains a speculative but logically open alternative,” says biologist Robert Endres.

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The associate justice’s dissent in the tariffs case deserves some extra attention, because it his hopelessly uncoupled from ...

Today, Ex Anima announces Jules, the first synthetic mind to publicly claim consciousness — and a call for AI ethics.

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America has fewer than 2,000 professional watchmakers. Rolex’s new Dallas school aims to fix that—and the demand for admission says a lot about the state of work in 2026.

The Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark tells Ezra Klein what he sees coming in the new era of A.I. agents. This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the episode wherever ...

Environment / Books & the Arts / James C. Scott’s last book, In Praise of Floods, asks if it’s too late for humanity to ...