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Dear Dr. E: I find myself facing the "What if" conundrum. What if the now widely recognized phenomenon of gender is truly on a spectrum more comprehensive than a heterosexual male and female?

The potential medical applications of access to the brain for treating ailments are far-ranging, but pressure to compete with America's adversaries might tempt leaders with the next step: enhancement.

The potential medical applications of access to the brain for treating ailments are far-ranging, but pressure to compete with America's adversaries might tempt leaders with the next step: enhancement.

We need to start talking about how to protect AI from us.

Émile Torres has become a thorn in the side of the branch of moral philosophy that advocates prioritising our distant descendants. They explain the danger of utopian movements

Detail from The Dog – Francisco Goya (c.1820). Public domain.Devotees of J.M. Coetzee’s writing will be delighted at the publication of The Pole and Other Stories. What may be surprising to some about this collection is that the stories have all appeared before in some form – but not always in English. The longest, The Pole, was first published in Spanish by an Argentinian press in 2022 as a standalone novella, El Polaco. It appears here in English for the first time. This a...

Peter Singer considers ordinary Russians’ ethical obligations regarding the Ukraine war, worries that artificial intelligence will undermine the welfare of billions of animals, highlights controversial ideas worth discussing, and more.

That’s the goal for ButcherBox cofounder Mike Filbey, who has a new company, Pepper, that’s focused on philanthropy.

One day, we may look back on 2023 as the year when it became apparent that the gigantic industry of raising animals for food was heading the same way as the industry that for most of the 20th century dominated how we record and store images. Is this year the equivalent, for animal production, of 1989, when the first digital camera aimed at the general public was launched? There are signs that it might be, starting wi...

The Pole and Other Stories explores familiar Coetzeean themes of love, death, ageing, art and human-animal interaction.