In September 1960, Manfred Clynes coined the word cyborg. We talk with the 85-year old about brain signals, treacherous words, precise music and how to transmit meaning. | Continue reading
The president’s team seems to see the senator from Vermont’s candidacy as a no-lose proposition. | Continue reading
The president’s team seems to see the senator from Vermont’s candidacy as a no-lose proposition. | Continue reading
Between 1918 and 1919, an outbreak of influenza spread rapidly across the world, and killed more than 50 million—and possibly as many as 100 million—people within 15 months. | Continue reading
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-re, do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-mi … you get the picture. | Continue reading
A new paper suggests that death certificates dramatically undercounted the number of people dying from opioid overdoses. | Continue reading
Researchers crunched longitudinal data to provide a simple predictive equation, and a chart. | Continue reading
The surprising persistence of the mail-order business | Continue reading
The old but newly popular notion that one’s love life can be analyzed like an economy is flawed—and it’s ruining romance. | Continue reading
What a website that generates infinite fake humans tells us about modern life | Continue reading
Most cases are not life-threatening, which is also what makes the virus a historic challenge to contain. | Continue reading
How a filmmaker, convicted of fraud, discovered the “White Collar Club.” | Continue reading
A solar storm can throw whales off-course, suggesting that the large animals might have an internal compass. | Continue reading
Such tips as "don't hand out cash to dinner guests" reveal what foreign tourists find surprising about coming to America. | Continue reading
Some of this year’s winners and honorees, showing remarkable scenes from oceans, lakes, and rivers around the world | Continue reading
An unprecedented data set shows where the encyclopedia’s editors are, where they aren’t, and why. | Continue reading
When our peers take actions to preserve the planet, we’re more likely to follow suit. How the human instinct to conform could help us address the climate crisis. | Continue reading
China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country. | Continue reading
The president's assassination 150 years ago sparked outpourings of grief across the globe | Continue reading
China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country. | Continue reading
Silicon Valley has hit a midlife crisis. | Continue reading
Silicon Valley has hit a midlife crisis. | Continue reading
The similarities between 2020 and 1972 are too astonishing to ignore. But there’s one big difference. | Continue reading
Giant phages have been found in French lakes, baboons from Kenya, and the human mouth. | Continue reading
Circle back and kill me now. | Continue reading
NASA definitely wants to go to Mars. But does it need the moon to get there? | Continue reading
Before the tales about Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter, people wrote bawdy or gross stories about "Gulliver’s Travels." | Continue reading
Fling wide the plastic curtain, take a breath, and step right in. | Continue reading
An investment firm was supposed to help Fairway survive. So why is the company now filing for bankruptcy? | Continue reading
The attorney general is working to destroy the integrity and independence of the Justice Department, in order to make Donald Trump a president who can operate above the law. | Continue reading
Stop-and-frisk was awful. But to disqualify the former New York mayor from the presidency on that basis is to risk something more destructive: a second term for Trump. | Continue reading
America’s defense against epidemics is divided among more than 2,000 individual public-health departments, which makes implementing a national strategy very difficult. | Continue reading
When parents portray success as a linear progression of SAT scores, acceptance to selective colleges, and high-powered internships, they set kids up for disappointment. | Continue reading
Researchers have spent centuries failing to decipher a medieval manuscript’s baffling drawings of plants, naked women, and astrological symbols. Is it worth the effort? | Continue reading
National efforts to strengthen food security have an impact far beyond any single country’s borders. | Continue reading
They get away with raising rents in places where local regulations impede the construction of new apartments. | Continue reading
Let's take a minute to get Grammar-Real: It has come to my attention of late that many of us are using hyphens wrong. This is not, of course, the hyphen's fault. | Continue reading
Many Americans are reimagining life at home, exploring models of kinship and community that might help more people flourish. | Continue reading
It will be a long time before we understand what the outbreak did to the global economy. | Continue reading
Nature is clearly in crisis—but what do researchers do when they only have imperfect data on the extent of the losses? | Continue reading
The former chief of staff explained, in the clearest terms yet, his misgivings about Trump’s behavior regarding North Korea, immigration, and Ukraine. | Continue reading
One of the worst maritime disasters in European history took place a decade ago. It remains very much in the public eye. On a stormy night on the Baltic Sea, more than 850 people lost their lives when a luxurious ferry sank below the waves. From a mass of material, including offi … | Continue reading
Smartphones aren’t the only killers of work-life balance. | Continue reading
A trove of recently released documents confirms that Washington’s role in the country’s 1965 massacre was part of a bigger Cold War strategy. | Continue reading
The residents of Boca Chica didn’t ask Elon Musk to move in, but now his company is taking over. | Continue reading
New states are the answer to America’s minority-rule problem. | Continue reading
The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together. | Continue reading
“It all came to me, and I wrote like it was a hurricane.” | Continue reading