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A Novelist Teaches Herself Physics

To explore loss and mystery, Nell Freudenberger journeyed into the atomic world.

August 14, 2019

The Great Silence

A parrot has a question for humans.

August 13, 2019

The Storytelling Computer

Artificial intelligence needs to think like the mythical trickster.

August 7, 2019

Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live

Without inner narratives we would be lost in a chaotic world.

August 6, 2019

Sun’s Puzzling Plasma Recreated in a Laboratory

The twisting loops of the sun’s magnetic field control the flow of charged particles throughout the solar system. For the first time, researchers have created a scale model of this mysterious environment.

July 31, 2019

The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis

It’s time to change the way uncertainty is quantified.

July 30, 2019

Who Will Design the Future?

AI will be staggeringly diverse. Its developers should be, too.

July 29, 2019