A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory ...

A team of physicists affiliated with multiple institutions in China has measured a pulse of light in 37 dimensions. In their ...

For over a century, the Maxwell’s Demon paradox has haunted physics. This thought experiment suggests that a tiny, ...

A cooperation experiment shows for the first time that animals, as well as people, are capable of communicating new ...

Rawls’ ambitious tome offers “a systematic theory of social justice for liberal democracies”, says the Cambridge philosopher Sarah Fine. The key thought experiment in Rawls’ theory is as follows.

A new translation of a 2018 book by French science historian Thibault Le Texier challenges the claims of one of psychology's most famous experiments.

“Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs in one,” he wrote. He is particularly famous for inventive thought experiments – one of which is about “Twin Earth”. Imagine that there is a ...

In a recent test with both DeepSeek (started by a hedge fund and based in China) and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the answers to moral ...

Bikes vs cars meet in AI driven teenage fever dream… Who would win in a fight between a cow and a platypus? Would you rather have to eat a pickled egg every day, or a slug every week? If ...