The limitless imagination of genre novelists hits a roadblock when it comes to envisioning alternative politics | Continue reading
Rebelling against Microsoft and its wizards, an engineer rediscovers the joys of difficult computing. First of two parts. | Continue reading
There's a counterintuitive explanation for why big lies may be easier to believe than small ones | Continue reading
Has dog inbreeding become an animal cruelty issue? Here, ethicists and geneticists clash | Continue reading
Linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky on our country's brutal class war -- and why it's ultimately so one-sided | Continue reading
Former Ohio Democratic Party head David Pepper has a dire warning: Rigged state legislatures are destroying America | Continue reading
If the university I taught at won't take depression seriously, who will? | Continue reading
Cats are being taught to communicate using a button-word system. Scientists are listening closely | Continue reading
Remote learning is consistently shown to yield lower grades and lower engagement. Students don't love it either | Continue reading
Tax expert Frank Clemente on how "wealth begets wealth" — and how a fair tax system could save American democracy | Continue reading
After 9/11, Congress gave the government unchecked authority to spy on its own people. It's been a disaster | Continue reading
Thiel is bankrolling election conspiracists and primary challengers against Republicans who backed Trump’s impeachment. | Continue reading
Male fertility rates have plummeted over the past four decades. A new study will investigate the role of spermatogensis — the process of sperm production | Continue reading
The Department of Energy is creating a vast monument to scare future trespassers away from radioactive waste sites. Their plan: A granite Stonehenge thing with warnings in Navajo! | Continue reading
The Moon's lack of atmosphere and darkness could offers unique observations of the universe | Continue reading
Going on a walk makes your mind wander in ways that neuroscience is only just coming to terms with | Continue reading
Fusion could be an ideal source of carbon-free energy — if scientists can overcome the engineering hurdles | Continue reading
Experts say you should expect more shortages in the future as extreme weather events wreak havoc worldwide | Continue reading
Social scientist Michael Bang Petersen on why people believe outrageous lies — as a tool in violent group conflict | Continue reading
Thanks to capitalism's inability to account for climate disasters, future economic turmoil is all but guaranteed | Continue reading
The House select committee on the Jan. 6 insurrection is a potent political weapon. Democrats better not waste it | Continue reading
In "The Reason for the Darkness of the Night," John Tresch links Poe and the forging of American science | Continue reading
An expanding notion of what "consciousness" is could have profound repercussions | Continue reading
Rep. Pat Fallon, a Texas freshman, has also failed to disclose 93 trades worth up to $17.53 million this year alone | Continue reading
The U.S. has waged an unrelenting air war in the Middle East for 20 years. How bad is it? That's a secret | Continue reading
It takes thousands of people to keep a few alive on the ISS. The plutocrat space race is not serious | Continue reading
A controversial dam project could be avoided (and save billions) by merely replacing water heaters en masse | Continue reading
Do they love us, or just love our food? Animal studies are shining light on canine emotional intelligence | Continue reading
Eric Swalwell wonders if some GOP colleagues would've joined the mob if they'd been outside of the chamber that day | Continue reading
Humans have a built-in "fractal fluency," probably because of our prehistoric ancestors' upbringing | Continue reading
In the U.S., the lab leak theory is part of the conservative arsenal of attacks on those in science and the media | Continue reading
Salon spoke with a virologist about the notion, which Biden is investigating, that SARS-CoV-2 emerged from a lab | Continue reading
ExxonMobil shareholders fight back in a stunning week that makes clear the market for fossil fuels is winding down | Continue reading
Focus groups, controlled atmospheres and fungicides brought us the much-hyped Cosmic Crisp. Is this agriculture's future, or its past? | Continue reading
Wild hogs are a scourge, but designing a system targeted to kill only them is a vastly complicated undertaking | Continue reading
A recent study shows that people with power embrace a "choice mindset" — and apply it to those with fewer resources | Continue reading
One nuclear scientist said the situation is "like the embers in a barbecue pit" | Continue reading
Journalists should not give into GOP bullying to ignore the full-scale war Republicans are waging on democracy | Continue reading
Lindell claims 90 million visitors to broken site; is trolled by Trump prankster, interrupted by Salon reporter | Continue reading
Right-wingers have a theory of human nature and the universe. Without such a narrative, liberals will keep losing | Continue reading
"Misfired" neurons might be a brain feature, not a bug — and that's something A.I. theories can't take into account | Continue reading
Health advocates blast Microsoft billionaire for saying patent protections on life-saving vaccines must remain | Continue reading
One "grandmaster" in the content software Drupal describes Lindell's social platform as "not even student work" | Continue reading
The author of "A Burglar's Guide to the City" says in newer buildings, a good shadow is hard to find | Continue reading
"The Lord of the Rings" is lovingly crafted, seductive -- and profoundly backward-looking. Why not look at things through the Dark Lord's eye for a change? | Continue reading
The French philosopher burned and rewrote much of "The History of Sexuality" as a result of his acid revelations | Continue reading
Google's restoration of digital history relied on a few heroes' packrat mentality and a mountain of decaying mag tapes. | Continue reading
Unable to pay rent in L.A., I slept behind my desk. But what began as a quick financial fix soon became a lifestyle | Continue reading