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Crosscut: cellular breakdown
What To Expect When You’re Expecting (A World of Multi-Agent Systems)
The moral case for being less online
Kashmir’s Uneasy Calm: Silent Guns, Muted Hope
How Do You Get Over The Greatest Sports Story Of All Time?
How art invented humanity
Crosscut: surviving financial distress
Tanzania’s national sound?
Why scientists are using cheap picnic coolers to protect some of the world’s most endangered animals
Does daycare damage children's brains?
Students are anxious – and it’s no surprise, since we are teaching them to be that way
I Taught A Scorekeeping Class And Everybody Came
Yellowstone Is Among the World's Best Places to See Wild Wolves. Here's the Story of the Animal Called Both 'Public Enemy' and Cultural Icon
Olivia Rodrigo Has No Chill
Crosscut: ai and biology
Worm munch matters
What draws well-meaning parents to authoritarian parenting?
The Court That Removed Its Own Prosecutor
What Do Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems Truly Mean?
AI & Drones: Eric Schmidt On The Biggest Revolution In The History Of Warfare
Spidey’s Sense for Success
Crosscut: women and state power
Melon’s Odyssey On The Black Market For Life-Saving Cat Medicine
Scientists Say They've Discovered 'Little Lab Zombies'—Seemingly Immortal Tissue Taken From Sea Cucumbers
A bungled bomb plot in Poland exposed a spy – but whose spy was he?
Are you finally ready to admit it's the phones?
‘The Cruelest Game’ Examines Tennis As Torture
In a new book, journalist Samanth Subramanian probes the real estate business in and around Delhi
Nice Guys Are Hot Again
The sucker’s dilemma
Converting Coal Plants to Natural Gas
How to be grateful to someone – even when you really don’t want to
The Strange, Explicable Appeal of Train Dog
How padel has disrupted the traditional world of lawn tennis
Why the India-Oman CEPA is Special
How America Lost Its Most Important Defense Tech Habit
Crosscut: weight loss drugs
A Sea Control Revolution?
Opinion: How a 1976 murder case changed doctor-patient confidentiality
‘I can sense Sinatra enter my body and exit my lungs’: aboard the celebrity impersonators’ cruise
The day Hyderabad celebrated two Independence Days on August 15, 1947
Our Last Wi-Fi-Less Refuge Is Gone
Mexico’s Oil Strategy Is Paying Off
This Unsung Black Developer Unlocked the Code to Turning a Video Game Console Into a Virtual Living Room Arcade
Crosscut: discovering hidden species
Could a Democratic Mid-Term Win Upset the China-US Detente?
How I Learned to Fear AI
This hamster has a Strava and runs more than you. It’s not as cute as it sounds.
The online shopping trend where you buy nothing
Our Versatile, Durable Pickup
Why you grieve the end of summer before it’s even over
A new book shows how aspiring women cricketers from India’s hinterlands are changing the sport
Crosscut: measuring the unseeable
The Nature Of Free Will In The Age Of AI
Exploring the Moon will require rovers that can think for themselves – an upcoming NASA mission will test whether they can
Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?
Writing letters is a spiritual practice for our age of speed
‘This Is Not Financial Advice’
‘Yesteryear’: is this viral novel’s time-travelling tradwife really ‘perfect at being alive’?
Crosscut: religion as political strategy
Who's afraid of Michael Jackson?
The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Night
Deference Should Follow Expertise, Not Pretext
The Primes of Leopoldstadt
Hard-Luck Men in Hardscrabble Towns
Poochmaxxing: The pet wellness sector is booming
Crosscut: gender and intimacy
Americans don’t know how to fight AI. So they’re fighting data centers.
Why We Like Things
Democrats have a working-class voter problem that progressives like Abdul El-Sayed are still struggling to solve
The Best Parenting Hack Is Being Rich
This Newly Discovered Spider Builds a Unique Web That Catapults Ants Through the Air
The Sports Idiot Is Dead, Long Live The Sports Idiot
Crosscut: managing childhood emotions
The great silence: why haven’t we found any aliens yet?
Should we "pace" AI self-improvement?
A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns
Every Novel Is Boring—Until It Isn’t
Would You Eat This Cretaceous Turducken?
Crosscut: revising origin stories
The U.S. Navy’s Subsea Rare Earth Vulnerability
Your deepest regrets help you see yourself more clearly
When Buddhist Robes Meet Sri Lankan Law
Forgotten histories: Awadh-born Mir Aulad Ali’s impact on 19th century Dublin
We Wouldn’t Be Here Without Poop
Crosscut: fear of bold design
Banning data centers would blow up the U.S. economy
Louis Pope Gratacap, A Curator in Lost Worlds
When the Deployment Doesn’t End
Opinion: Supreme Court ruling on Roundup points to a confusing difference between the law and science
How Do I Direct My Kid To The Stuff They’ll Enjoy And Be Good At?
Crosscut: allies managing trump
Orbánism after Orbán
Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?
Bring It on Home: How Bob Dylan reshaped popular music in Eastern India
The Class Struggle in Your Wallet
How out-of-work fishermen saved the American Revolution
Dulles Forever
Crosscut: cities and brain health
What Bafana Bafana teaches South Africa about itself