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Science
Scientists in Japan Give Robots a Fleshy Face and a Smile
Researchers at the University of Tokyo published findings on a method of attaching artificial skin to robot faces to protect…
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News
Southern Baptists Vote to Oppose Use of I.V.F.
With almost 13 million church members across the United States, the Southern Baptist Convention has long been a bellwether for…
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Opinion
‘Music Speaks to Some Deep Need Among Humans’
More from our inbox: Will Politicians Accept the Election Results?Honoring the DeadFear of CrimeA research team that comprised musicologists, psychologists,…
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Opinion
Why the New Human Case of Bird Flu Is So Alarming
The third human case of H5N1, reported on Thursday in a farmworker in Michigan who was experiencing respiratory symptoms, tells…
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News
The One Thing That Can Save Cinema From C.G.I. Oblivion
The motion-capture acting in “The Planet of the Apes” movies tries to preserve the magic of the physical world amid…
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Books
What to Know Before Seeing ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’
Who is Caesar? And how did apes learn to talk, anyway? Your burning questions about the “Planet of the Apes”…
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News
My Boyfriend Said He’d Save Our Cat but Not a Stranger if Both Were Drowning
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether there is inherent value in human life more than any other kind of life.
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Opinion
The Great Hypocrisy of the Pro-Life Movement
To understand the remarkable moral, political and intellectual collapse of the pro-life movement, look to the Alabama Supreme Court, not…
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Books
Savages! Innocents! Sages! What Do We Really Know About Early Humans?
In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell…
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Books
Harvard Removes Binding of Human Skin From Book in Its Library
The decision to find a “respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny…