Computer model could enable bridges and buildings that use less material

Buildings May Soon Have ‘Immune Systems’ That Fight Airborne Disease

Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable but it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself

Open Thread

Is there life after death? The psychiatrist Ian Stevenson spent his life collecting evidence. What he found was suggestive, but unprovable

Why U.K. Socialism Could Soon Be America's Problem

Federal Court Strikes Down Immigration-Related Subpoenas of Minnesota Officials on Anti-Commandeering Grounds

Why Tejal Patwardhan stopped underestimating the AI models

The Tech Companies That Just Need the Money

You Can Root for Iran at the World Cup Without Rooting for the Iranian Regime

The Secret Origins of 'Conspiracy Theory'

What killed the masquerade ball: the rise of evangelical moral values or an increasing affordability, which rendered it less appealing to the aristocracy?

The Model for Botticelli’s Venus Died at 23

A better way to model the behavior of metal alloys

A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer with all-to-all connectivity

Americans Still Believe in the Founding—and Want Schools To Teach Capitalism

Open Thread

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

A Supreme Court Decision Restricting Appeal Waivers Underlines the Injustice of Coercive Plea Bargaining

Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go

America's Founders Blended Liberalism and Religion