Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future. By Dan Wang. W.W. Norton; 288 pages; $31.99. Allen Lane; £25 Many of the people who run China are engineers, and it shows. Since the 1980s China has ...

The launch of OpenAI’s long-awaited GPT-5 model last week marked an ignominious chapter for the company. While it boasted modest performance upgrades on paper, the actual experience of using it left ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: String theory—the idea that particles are not point-like, but instead one-dimensional strings—is a popular theoretical framework that attempts to ...

The death of rock icon Ozzy Osbourne and the birth of YouTuber Trisha Paytas’s baby is combining to ressucitate an old and deeply weird conspiracy theory: the Trisha Paytas Baby Curse. According to ...

Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty on Wednesday, July 2, to killing Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves in 2022 Kyle Green-Pool/Getty On Wednesday, July 2, Bryan Kohberger ...

Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist. The theory also ...

This post is in response to Knowledge Is Dead By John Nosta John Nosta’s recent Psychology Today post, “Knowledge Is Dead,” makes a bold and provocative claim. He asserts that the traditional concept ...

The simple knowledge norm of assertion (SKNA) holds that one may (epistemically permissibly) assert that p only if one knows that ρ. Turri (Aust J Philos 89(1):37–45, 2011) and Williamson (Knowledge ...

With the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., brain worms have gotten a bad rap. A year ago, the long-time anti-vaccine advocate and current US health secretary famously told The New York Times that a ...

Last month, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collective reported that dark energy is evolving—specifically weakening—and it could help provide the first observational evidence of string ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Settle is a seven time CIO and the author of two books on IT management. 66 million years ago an asteroid collided with the ...

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