But 250 years on, the project of political equality, human rights, and democratic participation remains worthy of our lives, our fortune, and our sacred honor.

I once raised pigs. And factory farms raise them today in conditions that are as unconscionable as they are invisible.

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

Google DeepMind releases new findings and an evaluation framework to measure AI's potential for harmful manipulation in areas like finance and health, with the goal of enhancing AI safety.

After decades of explosive growth, Austin, Texas, in the 2010s was a victim of its own success. Lured by high-tech jobs and the city’s hip reputation, too many people were competing for too few homes....

“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

Live-animal markets are a natural laboratory for viruses to evolve and spark deadly outbreaks, yet scientists lack support to study the risks they pose.

Feeding the world sustainably is an incredibly complex challenge, yet some people are trying to sell us a bucolic fairytale, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

One hundred days in, honking is down; bus speeds are up.

Javed and Weingarten et al. created a multi-modal transformer that learns generalizable representations of genomic sequence and chromatin accessibility by utilizing a novel masked-accessibility pre-tr...

Where do pizza boxes go? What exactly is rigid plastic? How clean do empty jars need to be? Relax, experts say.

Journalists put more stress on accuracy than ever before. The problem is, accuracy is a slippery idea.

“Car brain” is part of a broader syndrome, which we can’t ignore

From the French Revolution to January 6th, crowds have been heroized and vilified. Now they’re a field of study.