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Crosscut: voting vulnerabilities
A New Dawn For Mathematical Progress
Young prudes
Ben Franklin Wasn’t Serious When He Implied the Wild Turkey Would Be a ‘Respectable’ National Symbol … but He Wasn’t Wrong, Either
How Can I Hang On To My Digital Life?
Crosscut: health insurance costs
Will the EU Develop a Pragmatic Strategy Toward Afghanistan?
No one is self-made
How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material
I Heard You Singing
Crosscut: why pop music changed
Would you pay to have the ‘best baby’? Liberal eugenics and the troubling quest for human perfection
Turbulent Times Call For Experimental Law
On Japan’s Shinkansen trains, pork buns split reality in two
Bats Thrive in a Messy, Noisy World. These Four Discoveries Reveal How They Can Listen and Chatter Through the Din
Crosscut: trusting ai chatbots
How to build real peace
Six Gutenberg Revolutions in a Row
Why Global Trepanation?
‘Star Trek’ and NASA have intertwined legacies – the show championed diversity and inspired generations of real space scientists
Can machines be war criminals?
The Two Kinds of American Patriotism
The Moral Cost of Killing on Command
40 days to arrive, 40 days to leave: How Armenian culture honors life’s most important moments
Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity.
Against Against Handover
Green Sea Turtles Are Making a Remarkable Comeback on the Remote Aldabra Atoll and Around the World. But Their Recovery Is Far From Complete
100 years ago, Schrödinger’s equation shed light on quantum physics – scientists use it today to fine-tune chemical reactions
Warhammer 40K Is Cool
Crosscut: rolling and friction
Opinion: The inherited disease my family called ‘it’ had a name, which changed everything
Why romantic relationships matter more to men than to women
Murano Parsnips: The Unexpected Literary History of the Dildo
India and Pakistan have forgotten the most enduring lesson of the Cuban missile crisis
“You Can See Everything” and the nature of liars
Crosscut: protest in india
Did China Overestimate the Geopolitical Returns of Its Latin America Strategy?
Tehran is a Different Beast Now
Are Men to Blame for the Birth-Rate Collapse?
Why we should all be partying more
How Pakistan became Trump’s most surprising ally
What We Can Save In A Time Of Endings
Opinion: I was a Theranos whistleblower. In ‘You Can See Everything,’ Elizabeth Holmes is still lying
Crosscut: saving rare species
The Uncanny Catharsis of the AI Emomercial
The Race for Hydrogen Fuel Has Taken These Scientists to the Arctic Seafloor. But Can They Unlock Its Secrets Before It's Too Late?
How intuitions work
How Jay-Z Changed Rap With ‘Reasonable Doubt’
More protein in your breakfast or snacks won’t give you more muscle without more work – a biologist separates the science from the marketing
Crosscut: protecting fragile democracies
AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?
Americans want electric cars – they just can’t find them
‘I wrote a children’s book about an insult I faced. Later, I had the same thought about my daughter’
Good Art Is Worth Waiting For
This day, that age, and a few memories
Crosscut: ancient boats and artifacts
Even Perfect Liberal Governance Could Not Have Stopped Reactionary Populism
A Nobel for New Keynesian macro, at last!
The Mythos of Digital Sovereignty
We Are Already Post-Human
Dam Removals Are Bringing Fish Back Across the Northeastern United States, Striking Down One Tiny Barrier at a Time
Crosscut: catching cosmic rays
American Christians Face a Choice
When The Present Eats The Future
What Messi Means
Learning without a brain – how bacteria store memories and remember the past like artificial neural networks
As White House shifts focus toward AI and tech, U.S. science leaders defend role of the American university
Crosscut: weight loss barriers
One Weather Forecast Changed the Course of WWII. Here's the Real Story Behind 'Pressure,' a Drama About the Meteorologist Who Convinced the Allies to Delay D-Day
Porcelain
What I Learned From a Year of Interviewing a Thai Sex Worker
Why relocating wild animals is rife with complications
Forward, but for whom?
Crosscut: losing our microbes
The surprisingly hopeful quest to fix concrete
How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure?
‘You Can See Everything’ Review
How Generative AI is Scaling Transnational Repression
Crosscut: election interference fears
How Taiwan Activates Beijing’s Chosen Fear
I was kidnapped and held hostage for 977 days. Could I forgive my captors?
What is hidden in the photographs we keep of each other?
Everyone wants to think they’re open-minded – here’s why most people aren’t
Grimes’s Secret Psy Opera Pop-Up
Crosscut: seeing the invisible universe
Is everything conscious?
AI and the Risk to Democracy
The Good-Hang Economy
Alan Dershowitz Won’t Forget What Larry David Did to Him
Crosscut: viruses and cancer
The Ghanian scholar who changed how the world hears African music
Nina Simone, Langston Hughes and their forgotten creative collaboration
Did I Ruin My Child’s Imagination By Being Such An Involved Parent?
Epidurals are miraculous
Zoos Are Doubling Down on Very Unnatural Habitats
Crosscut: the cornell assault case
Is this the cure for Alzheimer’s?
A mother-daughter quest to find fellow members of an ultra-rare genetic community
Say yes to regret
Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold