The effort to find intelligent extraterrestrial life is hampered by the slowness of light, the bigness of space, and some humans who don’t follow the rules.

Chance encounters in food waste bins.

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Black Tulsans record a rap album in a house that once belonged to a famous Klansman.

Is volunteering for pain an unnecessary cruelty? Or is it a fundamental part of being human?

New research suggests that Neanderthals did many of the things once thought to be exclusively “human.”

David Pearce wants to end all suffering.

Jacob Lemanski tries to write an unreadable book.

Amanda Provenzano says people are too afraid of death; that’s why she became a death doula.