EU Officials Put Elon Musk's Twitter Through 'Exercise' on Fighting 'Disinformation'

Twitter may be close to bending the knee to the European Union’s stringent new laws on fake news, Russian propaganda, and online crime.

The Importance of Omega-3 for Cell Membrane Functionality

STORY AT-A-GLANCE In this interview, Nils Hoem, Ph.D., — a research scientist with Aker Biomarine, the largest krill oil company in the world — takes a deep dive into omega-3s and the crucial role they play in the health and functionality of your cell membranes. “In my academic life, I spent

UN Public Service Day Marked amid Uncertain Future

Today marks 20 years since the first “United Nations Public Service Day,” which annually commemorates the contribution of the public sector and public services to the global development process.

Consciousness and its hard problems: separating the ontological from the evolutionary

Few of the many theories devised to account for consciousness are explicit about the role they ascribe to evolution, and a significant fraction, by their silence on the subject, treat evolutionary processes as being, in effect, irrelevant. This is a problem for biological realists trying to assess the applicability of

What Causes Asparagus Pee?

STORY AT-A-GLANCE Editor's Note: This article is a reprint.