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How do we understand evolution in its full scope and depth? How did life on Earth come to be as it is, and how did humans come to be as

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Why is there something rather than nothing? Quantum mechanics may hold a radical answer — not through mechanism, but through the idea that “possibles” are not things at all. Theoretical

We may be creating something a million times smarter than all of humanity combined — and we have no plan for what happens next. AI safety pioneer Roman Yampolskiy lays

Can science say anything meaningful about God — or does it simply make God unnecessary? Ernan McMullin argues the opposite: that modern science has actually enriched theology, filling in what

What is the classification system in biology — and does it even matter anymore? Alan C. Love argues that classification is everywhere in modern biology, from proteins to populations, and

Can AI become conscious — and does it matter? Sociologist, bioethicist, and futurist James Hughes draws on Buddhist philosophy to explore what consciousness requires, why current AI may be stuck

How can a single galaxy cluster produce more than a thousand images of the same distant galaxy? Yale astrophysicist Priya Natarajan explains one of cosmology’s most powerful tools — gravitational

Multiple universes? How can scientists come to believe in more than one universe? The idea sounds astounding — our universe is immense by itself. But Raphael Bousso argues that the