In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Sacha Pfeiffer transports us to Guantanamo Bay for this week's Reporter's Notebook. SCOTT ...

Fifty years ago, Thomas Nagel famously asked: "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" (October, 1974) Oxford University Press has republished the philosophical paper of that title in book form with an ...

Everyone fancies themselves as a Formula 1 driver. Whether you see the race on the TV or in person, it looks effortless. The drivers fly around the track like it’s the most natural thing in the world ...

When I speak with colleagues and students about AI therapy, the concern that I most often hear is that AIs are "mindless"—that they are "robots" that "parrot" whatever melange of cognitive behavioral ...