A barn owl’s ability to hunt by hearing alone relies on exquisite variations in the structure of its feathers.
Lorna Gibson | May 28
With biting satire, Alan Dunn captured how 20th-century architectural trends left everyday Americans astonished, baffled, and enraged.
Gabriele Neri | May 26
From “Shadow of the Colossus” to “Undertale,” video games have turned one of their oldest rituals into an ethical dilemma.
Jaroslav Švelch | May 18
In a period when confusion could be deadly, inventors devised ingenious contraptions to help carry the nation’s boldest voices.
Richard Taws | May 11
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
