Current Events
Absence makes the heart (and public opinion) grow fonder.
What are we supposed to do when experts look at the same data yet reach starkly different conclusions?
More accurate uncertainty estimates could help users decide about how and when to use machine-learning models in the real world.
And, more importantly, what’s being done to get them online?
Researchers are working nest by nest to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.
In “Not Born Yesterday,” author and cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier makes the case that misinformation is overrated — and other human foibles are underrated.
9 minutes of cruel history may cure the anti-progress delusion.
The evolution of quantum technology is far from over.
TikTok and its allies won’t go down without a legal fight.
Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower is poised to become the world’s tallest building. What’s behind the century-plus drive to build ever taller skyscrapers?
Should social media platforms have the right to decide what speech to allow online? Should the government?
Northern lights in the American South, clusters of huge geomagnetic storms—the Sun is throwing a tantrum right on schedule.
Lynda Gratton, a professor of management practice at the London Business School, explains how business leaders can navigate a future in constant flux.
Author A.J. Jacobs explores how voting has changed since the days of the Founding Fathers — for better and for worse.
This may be the largest helium reservoir in U.S. history.
The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.
Throughout the world, traditional political organizations are increasingly seen as dysfunctional. But can democracies live without them?
A physicist, a psychologist, and a philosopher walk into a bar and discuss a framework for thinking better in the 21st century.
Executive advisor Tiffani Bova wants leaders to value their employees as much as their customers.
Susannah Fox, former chief technology officer for the HHS, explains how technology has empowered us to help fill in the cracks of the healthcare system.
Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.
His career helped define humanity’s place in the world by bringing us “a little closer” to our ape relatives.
The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer’s breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.
Police forces are choosing humans over algorithms to make some identifications.
Meanwhile meteorite hunters rushed to Berlin to find this most rare space rock.
The case for why NASA should pivot to searching for current — not ancient — signs of life.
Five times in U.S. history, American presidential candidates have ascended to leadership despite lacking the popular vote. Here’s how.
No shots fired. No flags raised. And no dry land gained. Still, the U.S. effectively grew by the size of about two Californias in December.
The U.S. ranked 59th worldwide.