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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with the debut novelist Portia Elan. Her book Homebound travels through centuries and through the imagination.

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NASA just tested a blazing-hot plasma engine that could help carry humans to Mars.

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Silicon Valley oligarchs worried about the risks their technology posed to the world. They forgot about people.

Explore 5 AI-driven hip-hop artists and projects changing the future of rap, from virtual rappers and AI-generated voices to experimental music collectives and royalty-free licensing trends.

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Nurenberg: My 10th and 11th grade students, in addition to reading novels and short stories, used AI to advance their ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

A scientific study says climate change could erase thousands of plant species as habitats vanish and warming reshapes ...

What will humans do? It’s the question I hear more than any other right now. People ask some version of it every time technology changes how work is structured. Steam power, electricity, and then ...