Laurie Feldman used to be that mother — the one who redid her children's homework and called their friends' parents whenever conflict arose at school. But what seemed like benign attempts to help her ...

Nature is full of animals helping each other out. A classic example is meerkat cooperation. When the group is foraging for food, one individual will head to a vantage point and keep watch for ...

One of the main characters of the TV series The Good Place is Chidi Anagonye, a brilliant yet perennially indecisive moral philosopher. Chidi is full of good intentions but – as the saying goes – that ...

There is no evidence that anyone in the EA movement was aware of the FTX fraud, and one of its founders, Will MacAskill, has strongly denounced Bankman-Fried’s actions. Still, the company’s collapse, ...

Though we don’t live in zoos, we often behave like animals. So many of our instincts are derived from our animal counterparts. Take the various forms of altruism as an example. In the animal kingdom, ...

If gut bacteria can sway their hosts to be selfless, it could answer a riddle that goes back to Darwin. Click to tell Google to prioritize Quanta and see more of the best coverage of science and math ...

Rachel spent fifteen years in film and television, establishing her own production company and delivering... Rachel spent fifteen years in film and television, establishing her own production company ...

Effective altruism is having another moment in the spotlight, three years after Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto collapse first put the movement on the map. The AI boom has created enormous new wealth among ...

Nature is full of animals helping each other out. A classic example is meerkat cooperation. When the group is foraging for food, one individual will head to a vantage point and keep watch for ...