Your Home is Crawling With Microplastics

How Your Genes Shape Your Personality

Your Ability to Cope with Stress Changes with the Seasons and Your Own Biological Clocks

30 Minutes of Exercise Can Boost Your Task-Switching Efficiency

Your Perception Of Time Is, In Fact, Warped

No Second Amendment Right to Carry Gun on Your Government Job

Your Organs Age at Different Paces—And They’re Coordinating With Each Other

A Lei for Your Losses: Joan Didion on the Art of Letting Go

Hegseth’s Pentagon Lurches off the Rails

New qubit architecture enables faster, more accurate operations

From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment

The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: Ceramics, Serpentine, and How to Get Over Heartbreak

How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go

How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love

What being a moderate means to me

How scientists unraveled the cause of the devastating flood in Tibet and Nepal

The Cost of Not Building Data Centers

Federal Judge Halts Minnesota's Prediction Market Ban, Signaling Other States' Efforts Might Be Illegal Too

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

Extreme Heat Comes for the Red Chile Capital of Pakistan