Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

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Human instincts shape society, influencing power, inequality, and survival. Education can challenge these patterns.

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Humans are social creatures. While the silicone brains of AI models are dedicated exclusively to problem solving, human minds ...

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

The researchers behind a massive report on the state of nature in America are seeking to release it despite President Trump’s cancellation of the project, one of the report’s authors told The ...

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