Tired of being left off maps of the US, Alaska and Hawaii begin producing maps with other states missing, too.
The best way to start your day? The science backs naked cartwheels in the sun.
The life and work of Agnès Varda.
How the brain builds sentences, neuron by neuron.
Inside the ludicrous, deadly serious plan to take over Greenland.
How does academic age influence creativity? The authors find that "novelty—the linking of previously unconnected ideas—increases with academic age, whereas disruption—the replacement of established ideas with new ones—declines."
Anticipating the future in an algorithmic age. Misleading predictions shape outcomes and facilitate abuses of power, but resistance is not futile.
A dose of Duchamp. I was tempted to travel to New York to see the exhibition, but it will travel to the Grand Palais in Spring 2027.
The hole in the ice at the end of the Earth.
A human history of the Sahara.
Scientists keep detecting new forms of ice. Yes, you read that correctly. According to simulations, there could be many more left to find.
If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property and ahead of pensions.
The human body’s hidden pathways.
In writing The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann struggled to free himself from his artistic preoccupation with sickness and death.
A 481-meter-high landslide-tsunami in a cruise ship–frequented Alaska fjord. Animation.
Humans outperform AI at this highly rigorous mathematics test.
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good.
Think for yourself. One of the most dehumanizing effects of AI is the short cuts it offers through the gaps and impasses intrinsic to the act of writing.
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry.
Knowledge is a commodity now. Curiosity is the new edge. Ken Ono on the future of math.