What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world

Ryan Coogler and Sylvester Stallone profoundly altered the racial subtext of America’s most iconic sports-film franchise.

At a shiny new lab in Japan, an international team of scientists is trying to figure out what puts us under.

His life’s work was caring for the people he loved.

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.

A cuddly island mystery

Ross Andersen named deputy editor; Caitlin Frazier promoted to senior audience editor; and Yoni Appelbaum to lead major expansion of Ideas section.

The story of Dr. Rapp

The OpenAI CEO’s ambitious, ingenious, terrifying quest to create a new form of intelligence

Tufekci will write regularly for The Atlantic about the intersection of technology, politics, and society

In times like these, the magazine must come clean about the ways it profited from Russia’s electoral mischief.

A close-up portrait of bitcoin miners in eastern Washington reveals the real hustle at the heart of cryptocurrencies.

Climate change is going to revolutionize politics in cities across the world.

“The need to understand strange events like the Carnian Pluvial Episode has taken on new urgency."

After the tourists go home, a museum’s collection tells its own story.

The Atlantic’s science, technology, and health reporters learned a lot this year. 

The funniest people on the planet think there’s no funnier person than Albert Brooks.

Two fires have left 31 people dead in the state. But even insurance companies think blazes will be bigger in just a few decades.

A short story published in The Atlantic in 1878 may contain the first literary reference to a telephone—along with striking insights into modern dating.

DNA from dung and tusks helped expose the three major groups behind most of Africa’s ivory smuggling.

Even in one of the world’s richest countries, humans have a hard time coexisting with wolves.

These increasingly complex organoids aren't conscious—but we might not know when they cross that line.

America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop.

The organic compounds that enabled industrialization are having unintended consequences for the planet’s life.

Did people first come to this continent by land or by sea?

What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world

The strange, cosmic reason our evolutionary path will look ever luckier the longer we survive.

The late physicist’s radical ideas are still changing the way we look at the cosmos. 

It’s a shame—ours and his.

Like it or not, the middle class became global citizens through consumerism—and they did so at the mall.

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