
Kelsey Piper
Contributing editor
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Researchers use mathematical models to estimate extinction from natural causes.


NASA tracks big asteroids. Small ones — which can still do damage — are harder to spot.


A nuclear war might make crops stop growing, so we need a backup plan.


How food scientists are working to imitate an egg


Microsoft’s new billion dollar partnership with OpenAI is a big bet on the future of artificial intelligence.


Five years later, the ALS Association tells us how they spent the money.


Museums have been grappling with revelations that the prominent philanthropists made money off prescriptions they knew caused addiction.


A new study analyzes the effects of the “clean diesel” fraud. They’re not good.


Players can opt-in to face AlphaStar, the strategy AI from Google’s DeepMind.


Bill Gates and Warren Buffett set out to get the rich to give more. Here’s what happened.