Alex Taylor believed he had made contact with a conscious entity within OpenAI’s software, and that she'd been murdered. Then everything went wrong.

Parent emerged over 4,000 years ago in Siberia, farther east than many thought, then rapidly spread west, study finds.

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

A simple step we can all take to help stem the rise of fascism. Unfortunately it's not what most of our leaders are doing.

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

It is impossible to change people’s minds. Every new fact is taken as confirmation of pre-existing bias, every criticism of our in-group taken as a sign of the critic’s bad faith. We are more sure than ever that we are more sure than ever, we are of one

The arrival of researchers like Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and Amy Parish transformed not only the study of primates, but also our understanding of evolution, sexuality and gender roles in general

ment or increase your agency, not replace it.

The primary value of RC is the people, which is why our third self-directive is to learn generously. Learning generously is what makes RC a community. We celebrate each other’s successes, support each other when we struggle, and benefit from each other’s knowledge.

The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and...

Some black holes get extremely massive. Is there an upper limit to their growth?

Six takeaways from the March for Australia and why it should be a wake-up call.

I’ve never been accused of any crimes, let alone prosecuted. My experience sums-up the draconian plight of non-citizens in the US, says journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson

The cosmic traveller flying at 61km/s and steaming with gaseous cyanide is only the third object we’ve detected in our solar system that came from another star. And one Harvard professor believes it may be an alien spacecraft with malicious intent.