Seeking Human Generosity’s Origins in an Ape’s Gift to Another Ape
By Carl Zimmer The New York Times How generous is an ape? It’s a hard question for scientists to tackle, but the answer could tell us a lot about ourselves. […]
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If We Made Life in a Lab, Would We Understand it Differently?
By Rebecca Wilbanks Aeon What is life? For much of the 20th century, this question did not particularly concern biologists. Life is a term for poets, not scientists, argued the […]
Filling the Gaps in Space Traffic Management
By Mick Gleason & Travis Cottom Politico If you had to manage a large and growing traffic jam, where would you start? On June 18, 2018, the White House released […]
The Terrifying Privacy Policies of DNA Testing Companies
By Kristin V. Brown Gizmodo You probably wouldn’t hand out your social security number without having a pretty good idea of how that information was going to be used, right? […]
Mining Asteroids for a Better Earth
By Philip Metzger Aeon Mining asteroids might seem like the stuff of science fiction, but there are companies and a few governments already working hard to make it real. This should not […]
Criminal Justice in a World Without Free Will
By James Flynn Brown Political Review Scientific advancement has often upended long-cherished human beliefs. In the 17th century, the discovery that the Earth was not in fact at the center […]
The U.S. Military Needs a Teacher Corps to Train Its Partners
By Elisabeth Braw Defense One As we speak, U.S. troops are training Afghan armed forces. U.S.forces were also training them last year, and the year before that. In fact, American troops have been […]
