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The Creative Sweet Spot of Dreaming
A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.
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Lost Worlds
A juxtaposition of science and life, in the editor’s note from Print Issue 47.
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Can AI Help Us Be Better People?
One question for Jon Rueda, a doctoral student in moral philosophy at the University of Granada.
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The Iceberg Cowboys Who Wrangle the Purest Water on Earth
My journey to meet the people herding frozen leviathans on the maritime frontier.
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New Telescopes Will Help Us SETL
Extraterrestrial life doesn’t need to be intelligent to be worth finding.
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When Will Fusion Energy Light Our Homes?
One question for Thomas Nicholas, a computational plasma physicist and former fusion researcher who now studies climate science at Columbia University.
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Encouraging Conservation Through Communication
Two Jackson Wild fellows on what we can learn from the birds.
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Mobile Genes From the Mother Shape the Baby’s Microbiome
Tiny genetic sequences in a mother’s bacteria seem to hop into the infant’s bacteria, perhaps ensuring a healthy microbiome later in life.
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The Mystery of the Healthy Coral Reef
A reef off the coast of Honduras should be a disaster. Instead it’s thriving.
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ChatGPT Is a Mirror of Our Times
What language AIs make up for in efficiency they lack in humanity.
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What Is Our Universe Expanding Into?
One question for Paul Sutter, a theoretical cosmologist at Stony Brook University.
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Why Reading Your Doctor’s Notes Can Be Painful
A physician diagnoses the problem with medical notes—with a prescription for change.
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Mother Nature’s 7 Lessons for a Safer World
The best defense can be learned from the evolution of the animal immune system.
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The Vanishing Animals of Hispaniola
An inside look at efforts to save rare and endangered species in the Dominican Republic.
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The Ecological Catastrophe You’ve Never Heard Of
In 12 minutes, a landslide, tsunami, and flood devastated a valley in Canada.
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Should People Live on the Moon?
One question for Joseph Silk, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University.
