Hugh Breakey does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

As a young mechanical engineering student, and later as a medical student, Yale’s Samuel Wilkinson became fascinated with what science — particularly theories of evolution — might tell us about the ...

Edward O. Wilson is simultaneously one of my intellectual heroes and someone who frustrates me enormously, and these conflicting feelings were once again stirred as I read his most recent book, The ...

In The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus speaks of the divide that exists between what human beings want and what the world offers. “The mind’s deepest desire,” he writes, “is an insistence upon ...

All of the debate about in vitro-fertilization has made us question again, “What is human life? When does it begin?” We know that each of us is the result of a single egg from our mother being ...

All of the debate about in vitro-fertilization has made us question again, “What is human life? When does it begin?” We know that each of us is the result of a single egg from our mother being ...

All of the debate about in-vitro fertilization has made us question again, “What is human life? When does it begin?” We know that each of us is the result of a single egg from our mother being ...

The consequences of AI's spectacular advances are infiltrating critical aspects of society. The pressing question we face today is the profound impact that these intelligent entities, despite their ...