The Goal of Contemporary Journalism

Department of Energy launches $215 million race to build quantum computer by 2028

MIT researchers are mapping extreme weather risks — and building tools to act on them

Speak at Your Own Risk

Critical theory can be used to convey sophistication — but when it goes wrong, the whiff of pretension and arrogance is unmistakable

A new understanding of how enzymes influence bacterial protein production

Trump’s Iran Sanctions Have a China Problem

The Shaky Evidence That Flock Cameras Reduce Crime Rates

Why Navier-Stokes Pushes Math and Physics to the Edge

Muscle Loss is a Big Warning Sign of Dementia

Lord Knows What I Am

Warning Notice to Man Who Sent Critical E-Mail to ICE Acting Director Likely Violated First Amendment

Stephen Hawking, brilliant and extraordinary, was spoken of with reverence and affection. Those who knew him have a dimmer view

Fertility clinics are offering young mitochondria in controversial fertility technique

Will you be wearing an exoskeleton in ten years? The tech that could change how we move

Dwight Macdonald was famous for writing with a sneer. His savagery reads less like erudition than compulsive, gleeful bullying

Why Are AP Scores Rising? The College Board’s Answers Don’t Add Up.

OpenAI claims huge maths breakthrough on a famed ‘Millennium Problem’

Can the Feds Ban You From Making Liquor in Your Own Home?

Edward Field (1924 – 2026) Poet and Novelist

As Fears of A.I. Catastrophe Magnify, Washington Stirs, but Mostly Slumbers