The secret ingredient of comfort food? Struggle.
With pho, Spam, and Hoppin' John, pandemic baking joins a tradition.
By Kara Baskin
Winter 2020: Ethics & Equity
When users get mean, these chatbots sass back
By Stav Dimitropoulos
72 years before George Floyd, this police killing sparked national protests
By Schuyler Velasco
Forget the class guinea pig. Meet the class robot.
By Hannah Thomasy
A blind spot in medical data? Sometimes, it’s race.
By Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez
Fall 2020: Art
Coachella is canceled. Catch a show on Fortnite.
By Sam Eifling
A new film with a dead star? Thanks to CGI and deepfake technology, it’s possible
By Stav Dimitropoulos
Learn the new language of art
By Schuyler Velasco
She strings sculptures from the sky
By Tracy Staedter
The Experience Playlist: Art
By Erick Trickey
Inside TikTok’s hypnotic, colorful, and lucrative art world
By Lian Parsons-Thomason
On this road trip, the car wrote a novel
By Tony Rehagen
These artists use basketball courts as their canvas
By Jim Sullivan
POW! Web comics burst out of the panel.
By Tony Rehagen
It’s not Dali. It’s AI.
By Tony Rehagen
July/August 2020: The Outdoors
A canoe, a GPS, and my quest for the ultimate social distancing
By Matt Crossman
The future of urban commuting has one wheel
By Glenn McDonald
Venture into the linguistic unknown
By Schuyler Velasco
Fresh (virtual) air will do you good
By Hannah Thomasy
Saving forests with the Big Data fire brigade
By Tony Rehagen
I crashed into a South American mountain and lived — without ever leaving my couch
By Stav Dimitropoulos
AI can predict the perfect surfing day
By Matt Crossman
The Experience Playlist: The Outdoors
By Erick Trickey
June 2020: Food + Agriculture
Feast on these words
By Schuyler Velasco
Health-tracking implants can create bionic cows. Are humans next?
By Alex Pearlman
We tried to eat a holiday dinner together on Zoom. It did not go well.
By Heather Kapplow
The Experience Playlist: Food + Agriculture
By Schuyler Velasco
To capture more carbon, a cornstalk needs a friend
By Marcello Rossi
Eat your cake — and the wrapper, too
By Alison Stein
Floating cows and manure robots: A dairy farm on the sea
By Tracy Staedter
An ‘open source’ agricultural movement takes seeds back to their roots
By Veronique Greenwood
How a new breed of barley can save our beer from climate change
By Tony Rehagen
May 2020: Mating + Dating
My baby’s failed dalliance with the Merlin Magic Sleep Suit
By Schuyler Velasco
Is your dating app spying on you? Take this quiz.
By Schuyler Velasco and Ceci Menchetti
Find your love language
By Schuyler Velasco
First came AIM, then came marriage
By Schuyler Velasco
An ‘artificial womb’ could be a lifeline for premature babies
By Stav Dimitropoulos
The Experience Playlist: Mating + Dating
By Erick Trickey
Chatbot love: What it’s like to fall for your AI
By Stav Dimitropoulos
Future wedding must-haves: Flowers, photographer, and Zoom
By Alix Strauss
Pandemic dating is making us more honest
By Jenni Gritters
I was in a socially-distant relationship for seven years. Here’s what I learned.
By Lian Parsons-Thomason
Need help with your dating profile? These ‘doctors’ are in.
By Jenni Gritters
April 2020: Pandemic
I can’t stop staring at my own face on Zoom
By Jenni Gritters
Can you tell the difference between modern and medieval health myths? Take this quiz.
By Schuyler Velasco
Tracing coronavirus’ family tree
By Tony Rehagen
The new language of a pandemic
By Schuyler Velasco
The Experience Playlist: Songs of resolve
By Erick Trickey
AI spotted this pandemic. It could prevent the next one.
By Eric Niiler
My great-grandmother died in the 1918 flu epidemic. For the first time, I feel like I know her.
By Matt Crossman
Using data to count the days: the surprising ways we’re quantifying quarantine
By Schuyler Velasco
These microscopic allies could help in the coronavirus fight
By Glenn McDonald
A vaccine that could spread like a virus
By Tracy Staedter
Our gaping blind spot in the fight against pandemics
By Schuyler Velasco
Putting on a virtual choir is impossible. Everyone is doing it.
By Schuyler Velasco
The quarantine movie queue: 10 films about the power of science
By Glenn McDonald
Ebola could become a new weapon against brain cancer
By Stav Dimitropoulos
Future vaccinations could be tailored just for you
By Tony Rehagen
I’ve updated my disaster bag. Look inside.
By Alix Strauss
We saved the world from a pandemic — in a board game
By Glenn McDonald
To find the next LeBron James, use this test
By Matt Crossman
Thanks to 3D printing, the future of toys is faster and cheaper
By Glenn McDonald
I slayed dragons with an AI-powered dungeon master
By Glenn McDonald
Why AI will make your video games better
By Glenn McDonald
The Experience Playlist: Let’s Play
By Erick Trickey
February 2020: Climate
Airbnb or hotel? Chocolate or almonds? The climate-friendly answer may surprise you.
By Schuyler Velasco
The solution to gas-guzzling trucks is in the air
By Tracy Staedter
These scientists want to make real cheese without the cow
By Jim Sullivan
Build a more resilient vocabulary
By Schuyler Velasco
How do you hold a climate-friendly conference? Log in.
By Schuyler Velasco
Tree-planting campaigns get a high-tech boost
By Glenn McDonald
Measuring climate change, on the backs of scuba divers
By Stav Dimitropoulos
January 2020: Air + Space
The universe is expanding faster than we expected. These astronomers want to know why.
By Matt Crossman
This African nation could be the next great place for astronomy
By Stav Dimitropoulos
Stargazers fight to save the dazzling dark
By Tracy Staedter
How do you make a human heart? Maybe in zero gravity.
By Tony Rehagen
Bugs, anyone? How to feed a Mars colony
By Schuyler Velasco
Flying cars will be here sooner than you think
By Glenn McDonald
The Experience Playlist: Air + Space
By Erick Trickey
One brain, two bionic arms
By Eric Niiler
Will Peloton kill outdoor biking — or save it?
By Matt Crossman
Lights, camera, bathroom! A private space goes public
By Kara Baskin
Looking for the right makeup? Let AI pick it for you.
By Alix Strauss
The diabetes patients who hacked a pancreas
By Paul Heltzel
Speedgate, the sport invented by artificial intelligence
By Glenn McDonald
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.