In 1865, William Stanley Jevons first described a paradox. He maintained that more efficient steam engines would not decrease the use of coal in British factories but would actually increase it. As ...

The Fermi Paradox refers to the dichotomy between the high probability that extraterrestrial intelligence exists and the fact that we have no evidence for such aliens. This paradox was described by ...

The MCU is applying all kinds of time travel theories to Loki Season 2 including the Bootstrap Paradox. But what is it, and how is it related to Loki? Here’s a breakdown of the concept and all you ...

This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. Last week, news spread that a Chinese AI company, DeepSeek, had built a cutting-edge chatbot at a fraction of the cost of its ...