Artificial scientists’ can use machine-learning algorithms to design experiments that are beyond the intuition of humans ...

Today a bitter dispute about the nature of biology is underway. A simple bag of beans may be what tips the balance ...

Sometimes wicked but always powerful. Why did witches transform from figures of fear to figures of entertainment and aspiration?

With electron microscopes that magnify butterfly wings 50,000 times their original size, a hidden ‘topography’ emerges ...

The World Bank’s poverty line is inaccurate and out of date – an error that obscures the feebleness of market solutions ...

In probing whether there are basic sex differences in humans, a psychologist and a biologist agree to seriously disagree ...

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

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Vova and Roma, two Ukrainian boys, spend their summer in the ever-present shadow of war in this affecting short film ...

is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. His latest book is Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies (2025). As I cycle from downtown ...

Raina the Rhodesian ridgeback and Ruuxa the cheetah at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California, 2015. Photo by Sandy Huffaker/The New York Times/Headpress ...