The Physics of Crowds
Why dangerous crowds behave the way they do.
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What Is a Beautiful Experiment?
Finding beauty in science is timeless. But we shouldn’t let it blind us.
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Talk About the Passion
Scientists on the art that has inspired them. Artists on the science that has inspired them.
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The Pandemic Your Grandparents Forgot
Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID-19?
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Building Superintelligence Is Riskier Than Russian Roulette
Why the “hard problem” of AI—controlling our superintelligent creations—is impossible.
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Why Scientists Should Embrace Their Inner Child
A conversation with issue 50 cover artist James Yang
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Winning By a Hair
For cyclists, it’s a drag when you don’t shave your legs.
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Cormac McCarthy Took Us Beneath the Surface
Inside the celebrated novelist’s first and only nonfiction essay.
