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When the Thrill of Victory Felt Truly Thrilling

Michael MacCambridge’s “The Big Time” rewinds to the ’70s, when showy personalities and compelling rivalries turned sports into mass entertainment.

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Pushing the Body to Extremes to Find Serenity

Why do some people put their bodies through extreme acts? Why cross the Seine on a wire or climb a…

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After Nearly Five Decades, Waltraud Meier Takes Her Final Opera Bow

The famed singer, known for her captivating presence, intellectual approach and distinctive sound, is retiring from the stage with “Elektra.”

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Maybe We Will Finally Learn More About How A.I. Works

Stanford researchers have ranked 10 major A.I. models on how openly they operate.

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What if We Could All Control A.I.?

Researchers at Anthropic asked roughly 1,000 Americans to write rules for their A.I. chatbot. The results could be a model…

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The Strange Decline of the Pax Americana

When Hamas attacked Israel, Republicans knew whom to blame: President Biden. Donald Trump asserted that the attack wouldn’t have happened…

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Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.)

There is no free will, according to Robert Sapolsky, a biologist and neurologist at Stanford University and a recipient of…

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You Can Look Inside a Black Hole. I’ll Show You How.

How do we learn something new, something we do not yet know? One way, of course, is through experience. This…

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The Science Nobel Winners Were Short and Fast

The awards for physics and chemistry were a reminder that the most important processes in nature unfold on a scale…

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Kate Soper Returns to Opera With a Story Medieval and Modern

On a recent summer morning in New York, three sopranos, a director and a small crew gathered for a rehearsal…

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