Extreme vertical integration makes China's research system different than any other.

Only one President has taken actual concrete steps to address U.S. industrial weakness vis-a-vis China.

Electrical technology isn't just a climate thing. It's about national power and prosperity.

Some top economists claim AI is now destroying jobs for a subset of Americans. Are they right?

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For years, Democrats have sought to win elections by micro-targeting communities with detailed facts, Nathan Heller writes. What if the secret is big, sloppy notions seeded nationwide?

The Chinese company’s low-cost, high-performance A.I. model has shocked Silicon Valley, and a longtime China watcher warns that the West is being leapfrogged in many other industries, too. John Cassidy writes.

Adam Iscoe writes about restaurant-reservation platforms and apps (like Resy, SevenRooms, OpenTable, and Dorsia), bots, and table scalpers.

Paul Bloom explores the promise and perils of A.I. companionship, discussing books by Sam Carr, Susan Cain, Kaitlyn Creasy, Fay Alberti, and others.

White snus pouches were designed to help Swedish women quit cigarettes. Thanks to figures such as Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan, they’ve become a staple for American dudes. Carrie Battan reports.

Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried? Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports.

Robots are gaining a revolutionary power—the ability to teach themselves new skills. They have learned to play Ping-Pong, move boulders, and even tie shoelaces. James Somers reports from Google DeepMind and beyond.

Potential medicines are all around us, even in dirt. Artificial intelligence is helping pharmaceutical researchers not only find promising molecules but invent completely new ones, Dhruv Khullar reports.

The average American celebrates just one healthy birthday after the age of sixty-five. In “Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity,” Attia argues that it doesn’t have to be this way. Dhruv Khullar reports.

Andrew Marantz reports on the debate over artificial intelligence and machine learning, taking in figures and companies including Sam Altman, Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, ChatGPT, and OpenAI.

Jon Michaud interviews Dickson D. Despommier, a professor and microbiologist, about vertical farming and how cities should adapt to climate change through biomimicry.

David Owen interviews the author and scientist Vaclav Smil, whose books on environmental issues include “Size: How It Explains the World” and “How the World Really Works.”

Joshua Rothman discusses the science-fiction subgenre of steampunk, with its analog and mechanical vibes, and its lessons for our digital world.

Kyle Chayka writes about Cory Doctorow’s book “Enshittification,” and about the degradation of Facebook, Twitter (X), TikTok, Uber, DoorDash, and other platforms.

Kyle Chayka looks at Apple Intelligence, the new generative A.I. that Apple is putting on new iPhones and unleashing into the domestic sphere.

Kyle Chayka writes that studies from M.I.T., Cornell, and Santa Clara University suggest that ChatGPT, Meta AI, and the like make our brains less active.

Their unique biology and slow motion lifestyle makes adapting to warmer temperatures extremely difficult, new research suggests.

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

Due the rise in artificial intelligence in the workplace, some job candidates are experiencing a unique situation.

The technology has seen speeds that outpace commercial jet flights, which usually travel at around 570 miles per hour.

“I could vomit over Moomintroll,” Tove Jansson confided in her notebook in the late 1950s. A decade after the hippo-like creature with low self-esteem made his debut appearance in 1945, Scandinavian h

Nine years after hackers targeted Ashley Madison, the dating site for wannabe adulterers, many people still don't grasp what was truly chilling about the scandal, says Annalee Newitz

Users of the r/ChangeMyView subreddit have expressed outrage at the revelation that researchers at the University of Zurich were secretly using the site for an AI-powered experiment in persuasion

A game that prompts players to step on different arrows, like a dance mat, reduced falls among older people

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