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Are Digital Cameras Changing the Nature of Movies?

If film as a medium is not quite dead, it’s definitely on the endangered list.

June 11, 2014

A Summer Gaze

The Summer 2014 Quarterly tackles image and object.

June 9, 2014

Six Pictures of Paradise

I was puzzled by the artist’s photographs of my home in the Amazon—then I looked again.

June 9, 2014

The Astronomer Royal

Lord Martin Rees tells us about black holes and existential risks.

June 9, 2014

A Strange New Gene Pool of Animals Is Brewing in the Arctic

Scientists have seen the future and it is “grolar bears.”

June 2, 2014

If the World Began Again, Would Life as We Know It Exist?

Experiments in evolution are exploring what would happen if we rewound the tape of life.

May 30, 2014

This Shape-Shifter Could Tell Us Why Matter Exists

Neutrinos can flit between states effortlessly, hinting at deep new physics.

May 30, 2014