Run or pass? In this football league, the fans decide.
The Fan Controlled Football league calls itself a video game brought to life. It's redefining the very nature of sports fandom.
By John Terhune
When modern life gets tough, I take refuge in history podcasts
By Glenn McDonald
I failed to trick the adbots. Here’s what I learned.
By Glenn McDonald
What do you want to dream about? Soon, you may be able to choose.
Dream engineering harnesses virtual reality and sensory cues — and could have helpful effects while we’re awake, too.
By Hannah Thomasy
Stories in Humans+Robots
To be trusted by humans, robots need to read the room
By Eoin O’Carroll
Hear your grandmother’s voice, reconstructed
By Stav Dimitropoulos
One of Japan’s most beloved pop stars is a hologram
By Tony Rehagen
A quantum-computing app led me on an adventure in my own town
By Glenn McDonald
If an app can help you spy, can you resist?
By Alix Strauss
Stories in Cities+Nature
Did a legendary trout really ride the rails from California to Missouri?
Scientists use DNA to solve genetic puzzles in waters around the world. But in Crane Creek, the mystery got deeper.
By Matt Crossman
Energy justice is the next civil rights issue
By Erick Trickey
With a settlement named ‘Pandemic,’ housing activists in Cape Town are tackling inequality
By Ryan Lenora Brown and Vincent Lali
The pandemic saved the fast food industry
Burger King and McDonald’s deliver low-contact, standardized food. Fine dining is taking notes.
By Kara Baskin
The surprising magic of a COVID-era charity super-video
By Jim Sullivan
My lockdown smelled like lavender
By Alix Strauss
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Your brain vs. artificial intelligence
To understand how AI works, you have to understand human cognition, and recognize the processes we take for granted.
See how your choices add up for the climate
When planning a wedding, taking a trip, or hosting a dinner party, which trade-offs are you willing to make to reduce your carbon footprint?
What would you do? Take an immigrant’s journey.
Here are eight immigrant stories, told through composite characters but based on real laws and historically documented scenarios. Follow their paths, and see how you would respond to the choices they faced.