We’re All Going to the World’s Fair Is a Meditative Creepypasta
Horror and boredom mingle in director Jane Schoenbrun’s new film about a girl obsessed with an online role-playing game.
Dune Gets New Book Trilogy That Sets Up Main Events
But it’s not the only Dune project in the works—Anderson and Brian Herbert also discussed Dune: House Atreides, a 12-issue comic book prequel series...
A New Tool for Finding Dark Matter Digs Up Nothing
Physicists are devising clever ways to exploit the extreme sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors like LIGO. But they’ve seen no signs of exotica yet.
Marie Kondo and the Manhattan Project
What does the author and lifestyle guru have in common with the mathematician Stan Ulam—and Benjamin Franklin?
What Can You Expect During Your First Mammogram? And Other Questions, Answered
It’s still Breast Cancer Awareness Month for another day, but mammograms are important year-round. And while some may have had their fair share of...
You Might Want to Get a Flu Shot Early If You’re Pregnant, CDC Says
It’s summer. Pretty soon, drugstores will start advertising that they have flu vaccines, maybe even enticing you with the promise of a coupon to...
A look back at 15 years of mapping the world
Fifteen years ago, we launched Google Maps as a useful way to help people get around. Working on Google’s geo efforts for more than...
Sex Tech’s False Promises
There’s more to sex than the physical engineering—which is why technology alone can't solve all the problems it claims to.
Google’s AI Search Is Already Promoting Malware and Scams
Google started rolling out its new Search Generative Experience (SGE) earlier this month, introducing AI-generated search results on some pages. Unfortunately, it seems the...
All the Fish We Cannot See
In a dark, unexplored layer of ocean, a hidden cache of fish might play an unexpected role in our climate’s future. It seems like...
