Entertainment

Artist Nnena Kalu Wins 2025 Turner Prize

She is the first artist with a learning disability to earn the coveted distinction.

Dec 09, 2025 • 5 min

Google fellow: AI doesn’t pretend to be intelligent. It is.

Much of the ongoing discourse surrounding AI can largely be divided along two lines of thought. One concerns practical matters: How will large language models (LLMs) affect the job market? How do we s...

Dec 05, 2025 • 5 min

10 scientific truths that somehow became unpopular in 2025

No matter what it is that humans do — what we think, feel, accomplish, believe, or vote for — our shared scientific reality is the one thing that unites us all. The same laws and rules govern everythi...

Dec 09, 2025 • 5 min

How slime and dumb rocks can help us better define “smart”

One day in 1995, Toshiyuki Nakagaki had an idea. Nakagaki, a soft-spoken Japanese biologist, studies primordial mold and other amoeboid organisms. These creatures, which have been on Earth for nearly ...

Dec 09, 2025 • 5 min

AI is a power amplifier. The future depends on who turns the dials.

You’d be forgiven for thinking AI represents a classic Faustian bargain, as every reported blessing seems tied to a sinister curse. AI will help us navigate the immense amounts of information and data...

Dec 09, 2025 • 5 min

Not in our name

The gravest of all decisions, to go to war, happens without the consent of the people. This is a great flaw in democracy- by Vincenza FallettiRead on Aeon

Nov 21, 2025 • 5 min

The guitarist’s palette

In the hands of a great musician, the gloriously simple guitar can create the most complex works of art. Here’s how- by Craig OgdenRead on Aeon

Nov 28, 2025 • 5 min

Desert survivors

Elephant families are matriarchal, inclusive and caring. But when environmental scarcity hits, everything changes- by Caitlin O’Connell-RodwellRead on Aeon

Dec 02, 2025 • 5 min

Medieval moons

Some saw the Moon as representing creation, yearning for the Divine, some saw the Moon as almost Divine herself- by Ayoush LazikaniRead on Aeon

Dec 05, 2025 • 5 min

Maternal paradox

‘Scientific motherhood’ promised to create high standards for child-rearing. But it’s really a system designed to police women- by Sherry ChanRead on Aeon

Dec 08, 2025 • 5 min

How Robert Frost writes a poem

How did Robert Frost so perfectly capture a moment of timelessness? Discover the hidden craft in this classic’s simplicity- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

Dec 08, 2025 • 5 min

The empty ideology

Liberalism hasn’t delivered on its promises in Africa. The alternative will be found in ideas rooted in Africa’s own soil- by Gabriel AsuquoRead on Aeon

Dec 09, 2025 • 5 min

'We do not know of a similar case': 4,000-year-old burial in little-known African kingdom mystifies archaeologists

Remains of what was likely a funeral feast were discovered in a 4,000-year-old jug in Africa.

Dec 02, 2025 • 5 min

Elaborate 2,700-year-old tomb in Greece contains burial of a woman with an upside-down crown

A lavish tomb of a noblewoman discovered in ancient Greece includes a mysterious symbol of lost power.

Dec 02, 2025 • 5 min

Law of 'maximal randomness' explains how broken objects shatter in the most annoying way possible

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti.

Dec 02, 2025 • 5 min

Anacondas became massive 12 million years ago — and it worked so well, they haven't changed size since

The snakes stayed large and thrived even when cooling temperatures and shrinking habitats killed off other giant reptiles millions of years ago.

Dec 02, 2025 • 5 min

James Webb telescope spots strange 'super-puff' planet frantically chasing its own atmosphere through space

New James Webb telescope observations of the 'super-puff' planet WASP-107b show that the exoplanet's runaway atmosphere is frantically escaping into space.

Dec 03, 2025 • 5 min

Diagnostic dilemma: A woman got a rare parasitic lung infection after eating raw frogs

In an unusual case, a woman developed a parasitic infection in her lungs, when more typically, the parasite stays just under the skin.

Dec 03, 2025 • 5 min

When an AI algorithm is labeled 'female,' people are more likely to exploit it

People who played the “Prisoner’s Dilemma” were less likely to cooperate when the other player was a male human or AI, and exploited female players.

Dec 03, 2025 • 5 min

Death Valley's 'world's hottest temperature' record may be due to a human error

A new analysis of July temperatures in Death Valley between 1923 and 2024 suggests the world record near-surface air temperature of 134 F measured in July 1913 may be erroneous.

Dec 03, 2025 • 5 min