The Most Curious Cloud on Mars Relies on Some Bizarre Physics

Architect of polar neutrino detector wins physics Nobel

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A Visit to a Gun Store Shouldn't Put You on a Government List

Loneliness, Resilience, and the Right Choice: Poet Diane Ackerman on What She Learned While Working at a Suicide Prevention Hotline

The almost-forgotten Akhenaten. The pharaoh revolutionized Egyptian theology and art, then was erased from the material record

Nietzsche on Walking and Creativity

New York’s Chance for School Choice

How To Make Sense Of All The Science

Discovering the value of humanistic inquiry

Interviewing Justice Clint Bolick (Ariz.) at UCLA School of Law Monday, October 19 at 5:30 pm

Coral Reef-Like Rock Layers on Mars Reveal Ancient Climate Secrets

Self-help and life hacks treat existence as a puzzle to be solved. The ancients had a name for that: heresy

Habermas believed the gap between expert and layperson could always, in principle, be closed by the right chain of translation

A poem you can put your beer on. The mimeo revolution of the 1960s generated a deluge of experimental printing

Dostoyevsky on What Makes a Good Person

How to Lose a Trade War

US SENDING THIRD AIRCRAFT CARRIER AND 10,000 MORE TROOPS TO GULF—WHAT IS THE RISK OF A PREEMPTIVE STRIKE BY IRAN?

Odd shapes hidden in dense Amazon rainforest reveal sprawling ancient civilization

What Archaeology Reveals About the Rise of All-Powerful Rulers

AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack