Supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, Brown University scholar Michael Satlow will use cutting-edge ...

To celebrate her second Tony of the night on Sunday, “Suffs” creator Shaina Taub turned to Jewish tradition. Taub won awards for best book of a musical and best original score written for theater for ...

Isaac Asimov’s iconic science fiction collection “I, Robot” tells the story of androids created at U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. The androids range from “Robbie,” who is nonvocal, to “Stephen ...

A centuries-old mystery hidden in plain sight has finally come to light. In a modest prayer house in Israel, among community leaders and handwritten pages passed quietly from generation to generation, ...

Is it time to mourn the passengers aboard the submersible near the Titanic? As rescuers continue to search for the lost vessel, our Mira Fox looked to Jewish texts for precedent. The Talmud debates ...

(The Conversation) — Advanced artificial intelligence is new, but a similar idea has been around for hundreds of years: the power of a just-right sequence of numbers, letters or elements to animate ...