Not of This Earth

The Trump Administration Shut Down a Police Misconduct Database. Now It's Facing a FOIA Lawsuit

We Finally Know Tyrannosaurus Rex’s Body Temperature

Researchers file First Amendment challenge to NIH grant screening

To teach students how to think, shut down the WiFi, scramble the cell signal, and send them to weeklong retreats in the deep, dark woods 

College Is Coming Apart

Open Thread

A Vision of a Future Where Machines Fight Wars

New artist residency program at MIT expands views of the cosmos

Chinese Gangsters Turned This California Paradise into a Marijuana Factory

The American Age Is Over

A Process Made for Mars is Now Uncovering Ancient Art on Earth

Study: Reimbursing Victims of Police Property Damage Would Cost Very Little

a new cause of age-related inflammation

Beyond Form—Abstraction at Midcentury

Gwendoline Riley Breaks Free Of Her Phantoms

AI will transform capitalism – but how?

Gondwana Really Was a Supercontinent

The Brutal Origins of Bear-Baiting

Trump Will Never Mail the $5,000 Checks

Germany’s Political Firewall Is Crumbling