Welcome back to The Deep Dive where we surprise and intrigue you with a brand-new timely topic explored every Tuesday. This week we’re exploring what it means to be human. Here are some fascinating ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

Ten years ago, if you said artificial intelligence might surpass human-level intelligence by the year 2029, no one in Washington would have taken you seriously. A Wednesday hearing showed how ...

Today on Uncanny Valley, we talk about why the AI industry is investing in the development of humanoid robots, and what that means for us non-robots. You can always listen to this week's podcast ...

Tech is dominating the S&P 500 due to “Ten Titans” stocks like Nvidia, Broadcom, and Oracle. Buying an S&P 500 index fund is much more of a bet on such growth stocks than in the past. Some investors ...

It might sound counterintuitive, but your relationships can benefit from rules and limitations. Credit...Vanessa Saba Supported by By Christina Caron These are things people might say when they claim ...

Political violence, such as the murder of Republican Charlie Kirk and the shooting of Minnesota Democrats Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman, has become more prevalent today because factions in the ...

Human evolution may no longer be driven primarily by genetics, according to a new theory by researchers at the University of Maine which claims that cultural systems are now shaping the way humans ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. This summer, I reread the novel “Aurora,” by Kim Stanley Robinson, a science-fiction writer whom I ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. In a paper published in the Oxford ...

In April 2011, Ethiopia began construction of Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), on the Blue Nile river. The dam is expected to generate more than 6,000 ...