They Kept Outsiders Away for 500 Years but Their World Is About to Change

One Giant Clam Contains a Month‑by‑Month Diary of the Great Barrier Reef’s Climate 200 Years Ago

Maria Tatar has spent her career tracing evolution of folk, fairy tales, explaining why they still matter

Do Transplanted Hearts Assume the Age of Their New Host?

The Supreme Court's two decades of constitutional change

These frogs ‘see’ prey with their star-shaped toes

Americans Are Wealthier Than 30 Years Ago. Here's the Data To Prove It.

For as long as there have been writers, they have analyzed, lamented, navel-gazed, and mythologized the writing life

AI doomers and apocalyptic futurists are weird. Also, their prophecies risk pernicious downsides. That doesn't mean they're wrong

A Photographic Look at Sputnik 1, the Satellite That Launched the Space Age 69 Years Ago

A New (Fiscal) Year’s Resolution

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

Does Religion Change Our Brains?

3 Leading News Outlets Say Their Sudden Banishment From the White House Is Unconstitutional

For four years, a fellow saxophonist taped John Coltrane's gigs: 26-plus hours of music. His subterfuge is our gift

Data Centers and Their Discontents

The Opposing Forces Reshaping Global Finance

Border Agents Search Phones Without Warrants. This Case Asks the Supreme Court if That's Constitutional

3QD TEST: An Essay Without an Image

Why We Stay Afraid

Harold Cruse was as pure an autodidact as any 20th-century university scholar. Tuskegee wouldn't hire him. Michigan gave him tenure