The Big Picture

Can AI “Feel” Pain?

Who’s Reviving Industrial Unions? Graduate Students

Astronaut Photos Taken Just 13 Years Apart Show a Major Shift in City Lights

Robert Frost Explains the Midterms to You

Notes on Living Through Uncertainty

Britain’s last great airship

The Three Elements of the Good Life

Open Thread

Today in Supreme Court History: September 22, 2005

It was announced to much fanfare that AI had solved the Navier–Stokes problem. As a mathematician explains, that’s only sort of the case

Jimmy Kimmel Didn't Air Talarico Interview Over Fear of FCC 'Equal Time' Threats

A Russia Sanctions Bill Would Give Trump Vast New Tariff Powers

No Warrant, No Suspicion, No Problem: Flock and Border Cellphone Searches Excluded From 4th Amendment Rules

Trump Is Taking a Stake in Venezuela's Oil Industry and This Crony Is Cashing In

Magic mushroom compound may prevent chemotherapy pain

What Archaeology Reveals About the Rise of All-Powerful Rulers

Fertility clinics are offering young mitochondria in controversial fertility technique

Canada Is Moving Closer to Europe. Trump's Tariffs Help Explain Why.

Ig Nobel hosts science’s silliest ceremony outside U.S. for first time

The Meaning of the Lindsay Clancy Mistrial