The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical. We need a plan to ensure that the good outweighs the bad. Continue
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Taxing the rich cracks open the Democratic coalition. In California and New York, political leaders are divided over what they're willing to risk to soak the ultrawealthy. Continue
Every marriage’s disintegration is marked by the same four warning signs that researchers John and Julie Gottman can spot before a couple finishes their first sentence. Continue
Linguist: “Maybe we'll be able to talk to whales within 20 years." Researchers know that whales communicate with each other, but they don't know what they are saying. Continue
The most controversial weedkiller in America is being sprayed across California’s forests in record amounts, and much of it is landing in Northern California timber country. Continue
A Mother’s Age Can Affect Her Offspring in Ways Scientists Are Only Starting to Understand. The effects of maternal age may travel through generations without being written into DNA Continue
A growing number of scientific papers have detected both too little and too much vitamin B12 in the blood of people with cancer – of the lungs, the breast, the esophagus, and the colon. Continue
Earth’s oldest trees reveal history’s strongest solar storms. 1859's Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined Continue
The idea that universes evolve like organisms sat on the fringes of theoretical physics for decades. Then, a Substack post and a 2022 find by the James Webb Space Telescope boosted the concept Continue