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The DNA Fix for Aging

On his son’s fourth birthday, Michael Prescott had his first heart attack. Prescott, who worked as a civil engineer designing bridges in Tennessee, was in his 30s, and until that day, he had appeared to be in excellent health. But within two years…

16/04/2026

Imagine a Chatbot That Actually Knew How to Talk to You

Earlier this year, when I walked into a renovated loft in downtown San Francisco, the couches and tables were littered with flyers advertising an “emotionally intelligent real-time AI coach.

16/04/2026

A New Kind of Hybrid Car Is About to Hit America’s Streets

Two hours into a road trip in my Tesla, I start to get twitchy. By that point, the battery in my 2019 Model 3 has dipped to an uncomfortably low percentage. If I can’t reach the next plug, I’m in trouble.

15/04/2026

The Strange Origin of AI’s ‘Reasoning’ Abilities

In July 2020, 4chan’s video-game discussion board looked much like the rest of the notorious online forum. There were elaborate, libidinal fantasies involving “whores” and “dragon cum,” and comments on how long a gamer had to wait “before my dick…

14/04/2026

Thinking Beyond ‘The Man on the Plinth’

After the Cesar Chavez revelations, it’s time for tributes to transcend the “great-man theory” of history.

14/04/2026

Hold Onto Moon Joy

As a reporter covering NASA during the early 1980s, I quickly grew accustomed to close encounters with real-life space legends. All part of the job. But a chance sighting at the Kennedy Space Center one evening reminded me of the magic of leaving…

14/04/2026

How to Tax Billionaires

If you made money last year, you will almost certainly owe taxes on April 15. And if you made a lot, you will probably owe a lot. That’s true for most Americans—just not the richest ones. And if that makes you angry, you’re justified in feeling that…

13/04/2026

The Romance of the Gas-Station Sign

Adorning urban intersections and rising high at countryside interstate exits, the gas-station sign announces the mood of the consumer economy.

11/04/2026

A Different Moon From the One We’ve Known

Galileo Galilei, one of the first people to see the moon through a telescope, described it using what he knew about the sun and the Earth.

10/04/2026

This Is What Fully Automated School Looks Like

William Liu is grateful that he finished high school when he did. If the latest AI tools had been around then, he told me, he might have been tempted to use them to do his homework. Liu, now a sophomore at Stanford, finished high school all the way…

10/04/2026

The Biggest Hope for Curing Autoimmune Disease

By the time Fabian Müller met the patient at the center of his newest research paper, he was fairly certain that an experimental treatment was her last hope.

09/04/2026

The Most Beautiful Moment of the Artemis II Mission

The most moving image to emerge from the Artemis II mission has not been a snapshot of the moon or the Earth. The camera was instead pointed at the astronauts themselves, squeezed inside their tiny capsule. Christina Koch sat in the foreground,…

07/04/2026