To understand human history, we must resist attributing meaning and motive to it.
Alex Rosenberg | May 7
An unexpected visitor gave my team the evidence we needed to prove that the government was secretly wiretapping Americans.
Cindy Cohn | Apr 30
Writers and machines have been in a quiet standoff for decades. ChatGPT has just made it impossible to ignore.
W. Patrick McCray | Apr 27
From evolution’s first mutations to the rise of synthetic genomics, we are charting life the way Magellan once mapped Earth.
Adrian Woolfson | Apr 23
Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers — every stitch could mean life or death.
Nicholas de Monchaux | Apr 9
It gains its real power when embedded in webs of relationship and shared meaning-making.
Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett | Apr 6
Seemingly harmless data tweaks are undermining the integrity of the entire field. We must define the problem to prevent it.
Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer | Mar 23
In Korea and Japan, humanoid machines aren’t rivals but partners, assisting with elder care, creating jobs for people with disabilities, and even leading religious rituals.
Candi K. Cann | Mar 19
The drug’s history of healing and experimentation stretches from ancient China to American counterculture — yet its promise remains trapped in a legal straitjacket.
Linda A. Parker | Mar 12
Triumph breeds hubris. Defeat breeds grievance. Either way, from World War II to Afghanistan, America has fueled a cycle that never ends.
Robert Jay Lifton, Neta C. Crawford, and Matthew Evangelista | Mar 9
