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Amy Friend The Transcendent Brain
Humans are evolutionarily drawn to beauty. How do such complex experiences emerge from a collection of atoms and molecules?
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty Life Is an Accident of Space and Time
Even if life existed on every planet that could support it, living matter in the universe would amount to only a few grains of sand in the Gobi Desert.
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Nico Krijno This Is No Way to Be Human
We now occupy a nearly natureless world.
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Balarama Heller Where Science and Miracles Meet
Recent speculations in physics reveal that believers and nonbelievers may have more in common than they think.
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Samantha Simon / Getty ‘It Seems That I Know How the Universe Originated’
The theoretical physicist Andrei Linde may have the world’s most expansive conception of what infinity looks like.
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Alex Merto The Virus Is a Reminder of Something Lost Long Ago
In rebuilding a broken world, we will have the chance to choose a less hurried life.
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A Cataclysm of Thought
In 1905 Albert Einstein, a twenty-six-year-old clerk, published five epochal papers. One was later awarded a Nobel Prize. Reading them today, our reviewer is thrilled by their genius
