Harmony

Machines are the new descendants of Picasso.

Requiring vaccine passports would not violate any individual rights that a well-ordered society would choose to defend.

You don’t have to be entirely pessimistic about the future of wealth inequality.

Fish that thrive in icy waters provide a key to preserving human cells.

What the scientist who has studied the iconic sea creature for 45 years now sees.

It turned out that, yes, the participants’ brains revealed they were doing a kind of “neural replay” of the game they had been manipulated to win.Illustration by Kateryna Kon / Shutterstock During this Olympics, I’ve been rooting for Kelleigh Ryan, who is on the women’s foil team. She’s from Ottawa, where I live. Whenever she […]

How the golden ratio might contribute to cinema’s hold on us.

A geophysicist breaks down the elements of wildfires.

Panpsychists look at the many rungs on the complexity ladder of nature and see no obvious line between mind and no-mind.Illustration by Yurchanka Siarhei / Shutterstock Last year, the cover of New Scientist ran the headline, “Is the Universe Conscious?” Mathematician and physicist Johannes Kleiner, at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy in Germany, told […]

Stable cultural forms do not have to result from close replication; they can emerge continuously out of subtle changes.Illustration by VectorMine / Shutterstock Something about me must remind people of a blind 17th-century poet. My last name, Miton, is French, yet people outside of France invariably misspell it as “Milton”—as in the famed English author, […]