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
Elusive and endlessly reimagined, the squid refuses to be pinned down across centuries of myth and science.
William Firebrace | Jun 22
Along the Lowcountry’s Inner Passage, they steered south by starlight as slave catchers pursued them toward Spanish Florida. This Juneteenth, their names should not be forgotten.
Virginia McGee Richards | Jun 16
On writing, rupture, and the limits of human and artificial intelligence in a broken world.
Xia Jia | Jun 11
Design has long promised to protect us from disease. But its cures have a way of becoming new sources of harm.
Beatriz Colomina | Jun 8
From high-speed battering rams to gravity tractors, the technology exists to protect the planet. The question is whether humanity will act in time — and in concert.
Govert Schilling | Jun 4
Built to track enemy submarines, the Navy’s underwater listening network inadvertently revealed that whales may be singing across entire oceans.
David Rothenberg | Jun 1
A barn owl’s ability to hunt by hearing alone relies on exquisite variations in the structure of its feathers.
Lorna Gibson | May 28
