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A careful history of the United States reveals a kind of “Christian nation,” but not the one many expect: not a political faith, enshrined from above, but a cultural one, spread from below.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1964 was awarded to Martin Luther King Jr. "for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population"

A novel that redefines personhood, greed and despair in biotech, arguing for a singular reality, and more books

Artificial intelligence has made tremendous advances since its inception about seventy years ago. Self-driving cars, programs beating experts at complex games, and smart robots capable of assisting people that need care are just some among the successful examples of machine intelligence. This kind of progress might entice us to envision a society populated by autonomous robots capable of performing the same tasks humans do in the near future. This prospect seems limited only by the power and com...

Matthew Cobb illuminates the moral issues raised by genetic engineering | Culture

At the end of the twentieth century, the long predicted convergence of the media, computing and telecommunications into hypermedia is finally happening.[2] Once again, capitalism’s relentless drive…

In ‘A Voice in the Wilderness,’ Joseph L. Graves Jr. discusses his scientific journey, how he debates racists, and more.

Moscow’s fixation on regime security and the interaction between domestic and foreign policy has been continually highlighted across the past decades and currently continues apace.

How experts have determined that bristlecone pines, sequoias and baobabs have stood for thousands of years

Congress has the opportunity, over the next year, to give tens ofthousands of America's most disadvantaged children a much brighterfuture.