Deer can regrow their antlers, and humans can replace their liver. What else might be possible? | Continue reading
Painter, auteur, enigma, murderer. The work of the German Jewish artist, killed in the Holocaust, has long been overshadowed by her life and times. | Continue reading
You have to play a role that isn’t really you. It’s like slavery. You have to meet all those demands and keep a sense of yourself as well. | Continue reading
The first major interview with one of the most revered comedy writers of all time. | Continue reading
The trouble with waiting to address problems long after you know that they exist. | Continue reading
For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo. | Continue reading
The addiction researcher Carl Hart argues against the distinction between hard and soft drugs. | Continue reading
Fifty years ago, Gerald Foos bought a motel and rigged it up in order to watch his guests having sex. He saw a lot more than that. | Continue reading
Whatever field you are in, if it uses language, it is about to be transformed. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence may help us decode animalese. But how much will we really be able to understand? | Continue reading
Wayne LaPierre has cultivated his image as an exemplar of American gun culture, but video of his clumsy marksmanship—and details regarding his Rodeo Drive shopping trips—tells another story. | Continue reading
The philosopher of animal liberation and effective altruism considers cancellation, capitalism, and the pandemic. | Continue reading
Increasingly, what we’re after on social media is not narrative or personality but moments of audiovisual eloquence. | Continue reading
In 1948, the landfill at Fresh Kills was marketed to Staten Island as a stopgap measure. No one guessed that it would remain open for more than half a century. | Continue reading
Like New York’s version, the Camden Highline will be designed by James Corner, occupy a former rail track, and attract selfie-taking tourists. Unlike New York’s, it may not invite a boom of luxury condos. | Continue reading
Cryptocurrency mining uses huge amounts of power—and can be as destructive as the real thing. | Continue reading
The surge in violence against Asian-Americans is a reminder that America’s present reality reflects its exclusionary past. | Continue reading
A new exhibit showcases the surprisingly contentious history of English grammar books. | Continue reading
An efficient memory system, Lisa Genova writes, involves “a finely orchestrated balancing act between data storage and data disposal.” | Continue reading
In the heart of the pandemic, a trauma surgeon travels to the edge and back. | Continue reading
Fleets of electric scooters have taken over city streets worldwide. With New York finally climbing aboard, do they represent a tech hustle or a transit revolution? | Continue reading
On September 9, 2020, a convergence of wildfire smoke and fog cast an eerie tint over the Bay Area. | Continue reading
Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language? | Continue reading
As neural devices proliferate, so do reports of personality changes, foundering relationships, and people who want to leave their careers. | Continue reading
The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped? | Continue reading
When the next virus strikes, we’ll look back on this moment as an opportunity that we either seized or squandered. | Continue reading
The video-game designer’s latest project, The Witness, reflects his personality: logical, stubborn, unsuffering of fools. | Continue reading
The lockdowns seem to have sharpened our appetite for parking garages, gas stations, dead malls, shuttered Kmarts, and paintings by Edward Hopper and David Hockney. | Continue reading
The Penobscot language was spoken by almost no one when Frank Siebert set about trying to preserve it. The people of Indian Island are still reckoning with his legacy. | Continue reading
Critics be damned, the President is ending the Forever War waged by Bush, Obama, and Trump in Afghanistan. | Continue reading
When the coronavirus arrived, the country decided not to implement lockdowns or recommend masks. How has it fared? | Continue reading
Jed Rothstein’s film about the rise and fall of Adam Neumann’s real-estate startup isn’t an example of epic, Ken Burns-style storytelling. But it’s a good yarn. | Continue reading
My life has involved enormous upsets and reverses—illness, wealth, and near-bankruptcy, the usual snakes and ladders that people endure—except that I have been privileged to write about them. | Continue reading
As mass detentions and surveillance dominate the lives of China’s Uyghurs and Kazakhs, a woman struggles to free herself. | Continue reading
Resilience is a set of skills—and psychologists know how you can learn them. | Continue reading
How players began telling a new story about sports. | Continue reading
The strange science of Francis Galton. | Continue reading
Birds do it. Bees do it. Learning about the astounding navigational feats of wild creatures can teach us a lot about where we’re going. | Continue reading
We fear and yearn for “the singularity.” But it will probably never come. | Continue reading
The psychologist taught us that what we remember is not fixed, but her work testifying for defendants like Harvey Weinstein collides with our traumatized moment. | Continue reading
We fear and yearn for “the singularity.” But it will probably never come. | Continue reading
The uncertain future of the Arecibo Observatory, and the end of an era in space science. | Continue reading
The uncertain future of the Arecibo Observatory, and the end of an era in space science. | Continue reading
On a leaked conference call, leaders of dark-money groups and an aide to Mitch McConnell expressed frustration with the popularity of the legislation—even among Republican voters. | Continue reading
Roth revealed himself to his biographer as he once revealed himself on the page, reckoning with both the pure and the perverse. | Continue reading
To exonerate the nation of the murders of three million Jews, the Polish government will go as far as to prosecute scholars for defamation. | Continue reading
How a new generation has embraced extreme views online. | Continue reading
An N.F.T., or “non-fungible token,” of the digital artist’s work sold for sixty-nine million dollars in a Christie’s auction. It’s good news for crypto-optimists, but what about for art? | Continue reading