Policy analyst and managing editor of HumanProgress.org Chelsea Follett discusses the progress of human rights during her lecture “Human Progress, Humility and the Problems that Remain” Wednesday July ...

A key aspect of humans’ evolutionary success is the fact that we don’t have to learn how to do things from scratch. Our societies have developed various ways—from formal education to YouTube videos—to ...

Approximately 40 per cent of terrestrial ecosystems are projected to have experienced shifts in temperature during the past 21,000 years that are similar in pace and magnitude to regional-scale future ...

Roman orator and statesman Cicero in 55 B.C.: "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and ...

The march of science is stumbling and easily sidetracked, fraught with bias, fads and dead ends. A new research initiative based at the University of Chicago and the Computation Institute will use the ...

For all the talk of artificial intelligence becoming increasingly brain-like, there's one area where it frequently falls short: memory. Neural networks usually have to learn everything they need to ...

In 2018, engineers at expense-management software company Expensify wanted a better way to share and improve upon technical knowledge with their teammates. So, they started using Q&A platform Stack ...