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What is the future of gene editing with CRISPR? Has AI changed mathematics forever? Will we find other civilizations in the universe? What if we’ve been wrong about dark energy all along? These are ...

There are typically some key differences among could, would, and should. Not this time. Could the Trail Blazers trade for Giannis Antetokounmpo? Sure. Would they trade for Giannis? I believe so.

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There are few singular talents greater than Giannis Antetokounmpo. It wasn’t that long ago that you could replace the word few with no in the previous sentence. Now 31 years old and 13 seasons deep ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. My son’s Little League season started not long ago. A few games in, a sign appeared, mounted to a ...

The war with Iran has revealed the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. defense establishment and suggests how the U.S. armed forces can be reshaped to fight the wars of the future. Specifically, the ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

POCATELLO, Idaho — On May 14, 2026, a community hearing in Pocatello regarding the creation of an artificial intelligence data center resulted in a four hour long meeting, with over a hundred ...

It was a packed hall in the summer of 2019 at the 20th anniversary of the Student Conference on Conservation Science in Cambridge. An empty chair on the stage waited for one man. Hundreds of students ...

From things you consider common sense to facts that only true know-it-alls have learned, we prepared 20 questions that start easy and get progressively more difficult. While the first 10 questions ...

When I ask physicians about the artificial intelligence tools they use each day, they tell me that AI lightens their load and frees them from much of their paperwork. They also tell me it can notice ...