FLOWER VS. POWER
On a high desert ridge in central Nevada, there’s enough lithium to produce millions of batteries for electric vehicles. The one roadblock to mining it: a rare species of buckwheat teetering on the verge of extinction.
By Gregory Barber

UNDONE
We want to be productive. But even with hundreds of todo apps claiming to make us all taskmasters, we almost never master our tasks.
By Clive Thompson

Can Reddit’s Authenticity Machine Survive Wall Street?

Thousands of subreddits went dark in protest last summer, laying bare the tension inside the company before its IPO.
by Robert Peck and Paresh Dave

The Fateful Eight

The story behind the most consequential technological paper in recent history. by Steven Levy

Russian, Go Home

When my country went to war, I faced a choice: Flee to a world where the truth might kill me—or seek peace and familiarity in censored oblivion. by Vadim Smyslov

The Algorithmic Authenticity of Shou Zi Chew  
The CEO of TikTok likes tacos, Sheryl Crow, and Diablo IV. Is he for real—or a really good politician?
by Dexter Thomas

The Province of All Mankind
Two nations. A horrible accident. And the urgent need to understand the laws of space right now.
by Khari Johnson

The Violent Sweetness of Zack Snyder
How the director manages to game Hollywood and keep his soul.
by Hemal Jhaveri

Under the Radar
The ruins of the powerful have always stolen the archaeological spotlight. Now scientists have a plan to scan the buried history of everyday people.
by Geoff Manaugh

Blind Spot
With the world on the brink of a myopia epidemic, Taiwan offers a warning, and a cure.
by Amit Katwala

The Buyer
In the war against Russia, some Ukrainians carry AK- 47s. Andrey Liscovich carries a shopping list.
by Samanth Subramanian

Join the Robot Uprising
by Katherine Alejandra Cross

Meet a Video Game Noise Maker
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AI Goes to War
A small US Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence to prepare for the next great conflict at sea.
by Will Knight

Mind Wide Open
Kids soak up new skills, adults not so much. But neuroscientist Gül Dölen might have found a way to help grown-ups learn like littles and heal from stroke and trauma. Step one: Take psychedelics.
by Rachel Nuwer

The Big Interview
Deep, weird, smart conversations with the most important people in our world.

The Unparalleled Squareness of Pete Buttigieg
Sure, the US secretary of transportation has thoughts on building bridges. But infrastructure occupies just a sliver of his voluminous mind.
by Virginia Heffernan

“Building a Platform Like Twitter Is Not Difficult”
When Elon Musk’s reign of toxic chaos began, Christopher Bouzy didn’t just go looking for a rival place to post. He joined the crowded race to create one. (It got difficult.)
by Brendan I. Koerner

FORCE of NATURE
Jamie Beard is hell-bent on turning Big Oil into Big Geothermal. She has no time to lose.
By MARIA STRESHINSKY

Brandon Sanderson Is Your God
He’s the biggest fantasy writer in the world. He’s also very Mormon. These things are profoundly related.
By Jason Kehe

How to Love Technology Again
At a time when software is consuming us, we crave hardware—the material anchors of our immaterial realities.
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“Turn Your Own Wrenches”
Six years ago, I moved my family into a 50-year-old RV—not just to see America, but to test my belief that anything worth fixing
can be fixed.
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This Is a Philosopher on Drugs
I was at the lowest point in my life, and I needed a mind-altering jolt. In the end, everything—even the meaning of “everything”—changed.
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The Spaceport at the Edge of the World
A tiny village in Scotland is going all-in on rockets. The scheme may threaten the fragile landscape—and the country’s most powerful landowner.
by Tomas Weber

Hit Men
The Matrix movies brought Keanu Reeves and Chad Stahelski together. Now the duo is killing it on the fourth John Wick—and still saving us from the machines.
by Angela Watercutter

America’s Plant Assassin Corps
To take out invasive species, the US relies on crews wielding hatchets and herbicide. It’s a messy, fun job—but it may not be enough to stop the spread.
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Engines of Wow
Generative AI can now make better art than most humans. Soon it will transform how we design just about everything.
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“I’m Not a Tough Guy.”
Pedro Pascal cares about you. He’s also self-conscious about caring about you. This is exactly what makes him great.
by Hemal Jhaveri

The Hibernator’s Guide to the Galaxy
Scientists are on the verge of figuring out how to put humans in a state of suspended animation. It could be the key to colonizing Mars.
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Feed Me
Pitcher plants are beautiful, rare, and life-consuming—in every way. How one collector’s obsession became a nightmare.
by Brian Howey

Elon Musk and the New Population Panic.

The Transcendent Tones of Nils Frahm.

WeWork’s Adam Neumann Tries to Reinvent Housing—Again...

Abandon Ship! - Society is falling apart. But Balaji Srinivasan is here to lift you safely out of the maelstrom to a country in the cloud. (Well, maybe not all of you.)

A Planet of Her Own - Sayaka Murata never felt at home on Earth. In her novels, she devises worlds where women reinvent sex, marriage, childbirth—and the boundaries of human existence.

The Lobbyist Next Door
What do a Real Housewife, an Olympic athlete, a doula, and a Nascar driver have in common? They’re all being paid by a new Beltway adtech startup as influencers—peddling not products but ideologies.
by Benjamin Wofford

Jolted Awake
It’s not every day—or every decade—that a book comes along and punches a hole in history. The Dawn of Everything did, and I had to meet one of the minds behind its world-tilting revelations.
by Virginia Heffernan

Call of Duty
He tried to save his wife through a video game they both loved—and nearly lost himself. Then he signed on to coach an esports team at a Wyoming junior college.
by Brendan I. Koerner

Strange New World
In the footsteps of Alexander von Humboldt.
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Paradise at the Crypto Arcade
The Web3 movement wants to liberate us from Big Tech and exploitative capitalism— and to do it using only the blockchain, game theory, and code. What could possibly go wrong? 
by Gilad Edelman

The End of Alcohol
Glamorous influencers are blending science and superstition to help people “change their relationship to drinking.” Did I miss out by getting sober the oldfashioned way?
by Virginia Heffernan

THE RISE AND FALL OF YANDEX
It took 20 years to build Russia’s biggest tech company. It took 20 days for everything to crumble.
by Paul Starobin

A MILLION LITTLE PIECES
An entrepreneur is on a mission to rebuild the world’s reefs by speedgrowing slices of coral in hyperefficient nurseries.
by Rowan Moore Gerety

The Spirit of Clubhouse Animates the Social Web.
by Virginia Heffernan

Cloud Support: They Were Just Typing, Then … Nothing.
by Meghan O’Gieblyn

LONG-SHOT BOTS
The best-funded robotics teams in the world came to compete at Darpa’s Subterranean Challenge, an underground obstacle course for autonomous machines. In walked Kevin Knoedler and his scrappy band of undergrads, armed with parts from Craigslist. 
by Tom Vanderbilt

THE WEIRD HAND OF PROGRESS
Historian and sci-fi writer Ada Palmer says the past we think we know is wrong, and so is the future.
by Gregory Barber

REVENGE OF THE NERD
He didn’t fit into the cool-kid surf culture of Maui, but he went on to master nearly every extreme water sport you can imagine. No wonder the tech elite has a crush on Kai Lenny. 
by Daniel Duane

“IT’S HAPPENED AGAIN …”
A mother was convicted of killing all four of her babies. One scientist suspected a different culprit: mutant DNA.
by Oscar Schwartz

TRAVELS IN HYPEROBJECTIVITY
You know about climate change. But you don’t understand it. Not really. It’s too big, too complex. The philosopher Timothy Morton can help— if you’re ready to have your reality blown apart.
by Laura Hudson

THE CITY AND THE CITY
Where The Matrix foresaw a distinction between digital and physical reality, modern cities are merging them.
by Nicholas de Monchaux

THE COMMITMENT
Last year, tech companies scrambled to promise money and support for Black America. So what does the industry’s best shot at redressing the nation’s racial inequality look like?
by Victor Luckerson

BLOOD AND LIES
The system for testing drugs in the US relies on a network of contractors running clinical trials that adhere to strict guidelines. One lab owner chose profits over protocols, until someone tipped off the feds.
by Brendan I. Koerner

LOOKS THAT QUILL
The African pygmy hedgehog may be the most Instagrammable pet ever. But behind the tiny top hats and miniature spa weekends, I discovered a sad tale of internet virality.
by Noelle Mateer

THE NATURE OF TIDES
Last year in a bayside town in Nova Scotia, 3-year-old Dylan Ehler vanished. Online sleuths descended on Facebook groups to help with the search. Then they turned.
by Katherine Laidlaw

SPIN DOCTOR
Mo Pinel’s bowling balls harnessed the power of physics—and changed the sport forever.
by Brendan I. Koerner

REVEL’S BUMPY RIDE
When the shared electric mopeds hit the streets, people went wild. Then came the crashes.
by Kate Knibbs

THE EXILE
When Google cut ties with Timnit Gebru, it called into question its whole system of self-scrutiny.
by Tom Simonite

SACRED COMMANDMENT/FALSE IDOL
The true story of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
by Gilad Edelman

NO ONE COULD DENY TIMOTHY WAS SICK
He was a sweet-natured 10-year-old one day and a disturbed, obsessive stranger the next. But when doctors can’t agree on the cause of the illness, what happens to the patient? 
by Seema Yasmin

ALWAYS A BRIDE
I called off my wedding in 2019, but to Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I am forever getting married. Why the internet won’t let us forget.
by Lauren Goode

SEX TAPE KING
Kevin Blatt is a master of Hollywood’s economy of secrets, hustling damaging clips off the internet—or into the hands of the highest bidder.
by Amanda Chicago Lewis

DEAR BIRTH MOTHER
As adoption migrates to Facebook, regretful adoptees and birth mothers are confronting prospective parents with their personal pain—and anger.
by Samantha M. Shapiro

THE HYPERREAL LIFE
While China’s sci-fi authors are elevated to the status of New Age prophets, Chen Qiufan’s career—like his genre’s place in society—has gone through the looking glass.
by Yi-Ling Liu

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