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No but seriously what is Artificial Intelligence?

Could you create a tech company staffed entirely by AI?

Can music actually create a political movement?

Yo-Yo Ma tries to tap into the vein of coal that runs through West Virginia.

How a Palestinian physicist stepped inside quantum mechanics’ most notoriously tricky idea.

A hard-headed computer programmer lays the foundation for modern China.

A story of light that sparkles and glows, drips and squirts. And—maybe—talks.

Today, a Supreme Court mystery. How one judge changed his mind about free speech, how that changed all the rest of our minds, and whether it’s time to change our minds again.