People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion^[1] or performance. In this view, scientists simply discover truth, and truth speaks for itself^[2].

But history tells a different story. Scientific theories do not simply reveal themselves; they compete for attention, credibility and uptake. U.S. Supreme Court...

People typically think about evolution as a linear process where, within a species, the classic adage of “survival of the fittest” is constantly at play. New DNA mutations arise and get passed from parents to offspring. If any genetic changes prove to be beneficial, they might give those young a survival edge.

Over the great span of...

Zohran Mamdani as a creepy trick-or-treater^[1], Gavin Newsom body-slamming Donald Trump^[2] and Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero^[3]. This is not the setup to an elaborate joke. Instead, these are all examples of recent AI-generated political videos. New easy-to-use tools – and acceptance of those tools by politicians – means that these fake...