At MIT convocation, a warm welcome for the Class of 2030

Open Thread

As AI Lay Dying: Analog Adventures in the Old South

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

How a “Psychic” Horse Named Clever Hans Changed the Way We Do Science

An Expert Pieced Together This Roman Document Like a Jigsaw Puzzle. You’ll Never Guess What It’s About

Open Thread

Inside Venezuela's El Helicoide Prison: How Dissident Jesús Armas Endured Torture and Outlasted Maduro

I’m Part of the Team Writing the Next Bible of Psychiatry—For the First Time, the DSM Will Use Biology to Understand Mental Disorders

Not-Writing

Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life

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

NASA abandons orbit-boosting rescue mission for space observatory

No Anti-Stalking Order Against Rabbi Based on His Actions Opposing Anti-Israel Protest

Trump Media Is Selling Early Access to the President's Truth Social Posts for $100,000 a Month

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

Gage Coon: An Earth scientist exploring the power of microbes

See the stunning contenders for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Prosecution for Forging Court Order, Purportedly from Chief Justice Roberts:

Is the Trump Treasury Panicking?

Worldwide study of diseases gets historic funding influx