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Lawyers Expand Legal Fight for Longest-Held Prisoner of War on Terrorism

Abu Zubaydah was the first prisoner waterboarded by the C.I.A. He has never faced charges at Guantánamo Bay.

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A.I. Brings the Robot Wingman to Aerial Combat

It is powered into flight by a rocket engine. It can fly a distance equal to the width of China.…

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Artists Have Little to Fear From A.I.

I’ve got 99 problems with A.I., but intellectual property ain’t one. Media and entertainment industries have lately been consumed with…

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A Theory of Childbirth’s Evolution May Not Be What You’re Expecting

Scientists are revisiting an influential theory that the evolution of big brains made human childbirth risky.

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A Grim Climate Lesson From the Canadian Wildfires

You may have forgotten about the Canadian wildfires, once the smoke cleared from your American lungs and the orange disappeared…

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Saving the Flailing Humanities

More from our inbox: ‘It Is Still Ongoing’: How ‘Parade’ Takes On a History of HateBody DonorsPay Workers FairlyCredit...Lion Books,…

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Don’t Wear the Goggles. Their Vision Is Bleak.

“I will not live in the pod,” runs a mantra on right-wing Twitter. “I will not eat the bugs.” It’s…

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In the Age of A.I., Major in Being Human

Last summer, a piece of artwork generated with artificial intelligence took a first prize at the Colorado State Fair. To…

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Deer Could Be a Reservoir of Old Coronavirus Variants, Study Suggests

Even after Delta became the dominant variant in humans, Alpha and Gamma continued to circulate in white-tailed deer, according to…

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When Your Old Fishing Buddy Has a Snout and a Blowhole

Bottlenose dolphins help Brazilian fishermen pull in their catch, and researchers have worked out what the marine mammals get from…

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