Long before AI, teaching machines promised to make education more efficient. Their forgotten history reveals why that dream keeps falling short.
The Editors | Jul 9
Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind of natural world we want to build.
Taylor Dotson | Jul 6
The turn-of-the-century energy transition dazzled the nation — while concealing segregation, extraction, and ruin.
David E. Nye | Jul 2
Surrogacy, embryo disputes, and synthetic gametes raise profound, unanswered questions about liberty and equality.
I. Glenn Cohen | Jun 29
Their lives and symptoms offer a rare window into how the brain binds experience into a single mind.
Christof Koch | Jun 25