There is still a lot we can learn from big data.

GPT-4 is a natural language processing model produced by openAI as a successor to GPT-3

After decades of scholarship denying that the Carthaginians sacrificed their children, new research has found 'overwhelming' evidence that this ancient civilisation really did carry out the practice.

Michio Kaku says wealth comes from physics, and capitalism has evolved from and will be perfected with innovation and technology. The future is brain-net.

He wants to take the company private and has offered $54.20 per share. Earlier this year he became Twitter’s largest shareholder.

A 2016 study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science found that people are more willing to sacrifice men than women in a time of crisis and that they are more willing to inflict...

If you think Sweden is socialist, then you know something that just ain’t so.

Pop culture today is obsessed with the battle between good and evil. Traditional folktales never were. What changed?

Population aging is proceeding apace across the world, but there is little agreement on what to do about it or even whether it is a bad thing at all. On the upside, older, smaller societies will have...

The world’s population will reach 8 billion in the middle of November. But as our human family grows larger, it is also growing more divided.

Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.

Fifty years of research on children's toy preferences shows that kids generally prefer toys oriented toward their own gender.

American men and boys are struggling. Why aren't the media and government paying attention?

Go ahead, grill a burger. Going vegetarian can help our climate a little bit, but it's an inefficient policy to try to push on people worldwide.

Elon Musk’s internet satellite venture has spawned an unlikely alliance of competitors, regulators and experts who say the billionaire is building a near-monopoly that is threatening space safety and...

Oxford social anthropologist J.D. Unwin discovered that when a highly developed culture undergoes an increase in sexual freedom, a collapse of that culture follows within three generations. The...

Towards a new politics of anti-gerontocracy

Directors of movies like 'Magic Mike's Last Dance' and 'Cat Person' discuss how superheroes took over Hollywood and stamped out sex scenes.

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Human beings are rarely rational—so it’s time we all stopped pretending they are.

The microorganisms are 830 million years old, and may still be kicking. The find has implications for the search for life on Mars, researchers say.

A simple but reasonable definition of inequality says that moving any part of a distribution toward its median value (while holding the rest of the distribution constant) reduces the inequality in...

Many world leaders have condemned Russia’s attack on Ukraine, but a number of countries have also taken a more neutral or softer stance, or not commented at all.

I’ve long puzzled over the fact that most of the concern I hear expressed on inequality is about the smallest of (at least) seven kinds: income inequality between the families of a nation at a time...

But skeptics question whether science is really becoming more welcoming to women.

There’s too much censorship online, not too little.