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

‘Musk’ film is almost four hours long, engrossing and terrifying

MIT welcomes David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91 as its next Innovation Fellow

Scientists have discovered a powerful gene-targeting system in viruses: Billions of years old, VIPR seems to predate CRISPR and may be even more effective

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

Glenn Gould was fabulously neurotic, opinionated, and flamboyant. Seventy years on, his Bach still sets the standard

In his diary, the Italian litterateur Cesare Pavese boasted: “I am king. In the course of ten years, I have done it all.” Then he set to arranging his death

Loneliness and Social Isolation Can Rob Men of Six Disease-Free Years of Their Lives

An Ideological Accreditation Problem at the APA

Open Thread

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

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

50 Years Ago, NASA Unveiled its First Space Shuttle

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“The body could have been that of a hobo.” The life — and death — of Victor Serge is evidence that years spent on the barricades takes a toll

In 2011, a reddish hair was found in Thomas Jefferson's bible. That discovery prompted a decade of DNA testing – and a lot of ill will

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

FDA launches pilot program to speed up sluggish phase 1 trials

Human organoids restore cognition in mice with half a brain

Brendan Carr's Vendetta Against ABC Conflates the 'Public Interest' With Trump's Personal Grievances

Germany’s Political Firewall Is Crumbling