Earth core structure illustrated with geological layers according to scale – isolated on black … [+] (Elements of this 3d image furnished by NASA – texture maps from http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/) getty Science is hard. Writing about science can be hard too, although it’s almost never as hard as doing actual science. And yet we science writers […]

America certainly didn’t get off to a great start in 2023. We are bringing forward a whole laundry list of problems from last year: inflation, climate change, dysfunctional immigration policies, inadequate education systems, war abroad, rudeness, hatred, and xenophobia. In the first week of this new year, the U.S. House couldn’t agree on a speaker […]

Topline Two lawsuits filed Wednesday in North Carolina and West Virginia are asking for the states to lift restrictions on abortion pills, arguing that federal rules allowing them should outweigh state bans, part of a broader showdown over the legality of medical abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. New lawsuits are aiming […]

A conversation about artificial intelligence’s current inability to forget and what this means for the right to privacy and user agency. Miguel Luengo-Oroz, AI expert and social entrepreneur, speaks with Ashoka’s Hanae Baruchel. (Full bio below.) Hanae Baruchel: ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence (AI) apps have been making headlines recently because of their unprecedented […]