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Generative AI sheds new light on the underlying engines of metaphor, mood and reinvention in six decades of songs ...

In Southwestern China, a filmmaker follows her father on a search for his childhood home, reshaped by history and time ...

How the photographer Justine Kurland reframes utopia in the radical freedom of teenage girls, women and outsider communities ...

Should deaf parents be able to select for a deaf child? On the ethics of parental choice and ‘designer babies’ ...

Exoplanet discoveries have reshaped astronomy. Are exomoons next? Brian Greene in conversation with David Kipping ...

The immense complexity of the climate makes it impossible to model accurately. Instead we must use uncertainty to our ...

Images of vast ‘canals’ rippling across the red planet inspired fears of alien ‘engineers’ and changed science forever ...

Current technology allows for radical memory enhancement: smartphones can­ record (and transcribe) every conversation, and wearable cameras ­can capture hours of first-person audiovisual recording. We ...

The transformation of American public opinion on same-sex marriage is among the most remarkable and rapid shifts in moral consciousness ever recorded. Since the late 1980s, public approval of the ...

Should owning an idea be treated the same way as owning a physical object, or are these two forms of property rights ultimately incomparable? How should societies balance incentivising new ideas with ...

is professor and personal chair in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in in Scotland, UK. He has published many articles and books on the ethics of suicide, assisted dying, and suicide ...