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The Testaments: The chilling real-life parallels behind plums, wife schools and Gilead’s atrocities

Image Credit: The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments (Image: MGM, Hulu) ‘The Handmaid’s Tale‘ keeps finding new ways to ...

Are aliens real? Scientists have been hunting for extraterrestrial life since the time of Aristotle

Aristotle's views on the nature of the cosmos dominated the Ancient Greek world. He argued that there's only one world, at ...

7 Most Perfect HBO Shows of the Last 15 Years, Ranked

I May Destroy You, The White Lotus, and Boardwalk Empire are among the best HBO shows of the last 15 years, but which series ...

Inside the Real Events That Inspired “Euphoria”, Including Creator Sam Levinson's History with Addiction

Euphoria takes inspiration from its creator Sam Levinson's real-life experiences with addiction. When the HBO series debuted ...
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What Physical ‘Life Force’ Turns Biology’s Wheels?

The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the ...
Brown University

Do AI language models ‘understand’ the real world? On a basic level, they do, a new study finds

New research shows that AI language models can develop a mathematical “understanding” that differentiates between events that ...

If You Want a Better World, Act Like You Live in It

We’ve had Henry David Thoreau the environmentalist, the libertarian, the life coach. To understand his influence, think of ...