A mix of technology and politics has given an unprecedented boost to once-fringe ideas—but they are pretty much the same ...

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A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth.On the one side, what we might call ...

The global community is facing a number of urgent challenges, such as emerging diseases, epidemics, antimicrobial resistance, ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Rice University has announced the creation of the Rice Brain Institute (RBI), an ambitious, interdisciplinary hub that unites ...

Students – and all manner of professionals – are tempted to outsource their thinking to AI, which threatens to undermine learning and credibility. A philosophy professor offers a solution.

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It’s a fact that anything and everything that was created by man for good purpose, from medicine to technology, has ...

Historian Sunil Amrith’s The Burning Earth explores how centuries of human ambition and exploitation have bound together ...