Last year, a fox broke into a bird enclosure in D.C. and killed 25 flamingos. The zoo refused to let him strike again.
AI doesn’t know its own strengths.
The dream of an artificial mind may never become a reality if AI runs out of quality prose to ingest—and there isn’t much left.
Three basketball-loving writers discuss the first season of HBO’s controversial series about the 1980s Lakers.
Did people first come to this continent by land or by sea?
Introducing a new series about this country’s natural spaces
Love them or hate them, the NBA’s most storied franchise was the right team for this moment.
Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.
It’s tragic that a superstar known for his thoughtfulness and willingness to learn never fully reckoned with his life’s darkest off-court episode.
“Often before I write a scene for the final time … I take a minute, close my eyes, and build the world of the scene around me.”
Nearly 50 years after Neil Armstrong first set foot on the lunar surface, it’s clear that Apollo 11 will haunt the human imagination for a long time to come.
What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world
Don DeLillo's literary interpretation of an astronaut’s “endlessly fulfilling” view of our home planet
Laker fans get their first glimpse of L.A.’s newest megastar, in one of the most chaotic home openers in memory.
As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world’s largest radio dish for precisely that purpose.
Science's ethos of self-correction should apply to how it thinks about its own history, too.
America’s skies are set to dim at a strange hour of its history.
The Cassini spacecraft gives us a rare glimpse of ourselves from between Saturn's rings.
In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.
He may come to regret it.
Two Atlantic writers on the very high highs, and (perhaps) the very low lows, of the genre