In the most recent translation of one of philosophy’s greatest texts, Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit, the translators ...

For the first time, researchers have simulated the full workings of a bacterial cell as it copies its DNA and divides into two. The experiment could help researchers to understand how the interactions ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to turn plastic waste into acetic acid, the main ingredient of vinegar, using sunlight. The breakthrough offers a promising new approach ...

The decade or so since the financial crisis of 2008 has seen a resurgence of interest in what nineteenth-century thinkers would have called “the social question,” backpedaling somewhat from the ...

THERE is real satisfaction for a lifelong student of philosophy, when he finds the loyalties of his youth emerging from obloquy and arresting the attention of a generation whose temper of mind is ...

Imagine an AI system analyzing the social media history of a deployed soldier and his spouse. Within seconds, it identifies a vulnerability to jealousy and violence. At negligible cost, it generates a ...

Anthropic found in experiments that AI models may resort to blackmail when facing shutdown and goal conflict. AI models train on positive reinforcement and reward systems, similar to human ...

Can you feel it? There is a palpable dread that the ruling class, which owns financial and industrial capital, will continue to invest in destroying the Earth System. One example is the half-dozen ...

In response to pressure from rivals including Chinese AI company DeepSeek, OpenAI is changing the way its newest AI model, o3-mini, communicates its step-by-step “thought” process. On Thursday, OpenAI ...

“There’s so much story that comes from touching something,” says Michael DeChillo. As the owner of Sample House—a year-old membership-based materials library—DeChillo is invested in tactility. And ...