Biotech
Are Cyborg Warriors a Good Idea?
The Pentagon is funding brain-implant research aimed at creating neurally “enhanced” soldiers
Stories by John Horgan
Policy
The Deep Roots of Fake News
A new history of the U.S. traces mass media’s destabilizing effects back to the nation’s birth...
Policy
Dear Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Please Work to End War
A science writer urges a progressive young congresswoman to lead a broad peace movement
Behavior
Should Reality Make Us Glad or Sad?
Some sages say seeing things as they truly are should make us feel fantastic, but others demur
Mental Health
Cypher's Choice: Painful Reality or Pleasant Delusion?
The care of people with dementia poses an agonizing philosophical dilemma
Fitness
A Former Java Junkie Ponders Coffee's Upside
After a science writer kicks caffeine to reduce his anxiety, a wellness expert assures him that coffee is good for you...
Policy
Visions of a Better World
Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, Martin Rees and others answer the question: What’s your utopia?...
Cognition
Can Art Solve the Hard Problem?
A play dramatizes the deepest of all mysteries, the mind–body problem
Climate Change
Dark Days
A science writer struggles to stay upbeat in a troubled time
Space & Physics
Facing the End of Science
Physicists and others confront science’s limits
Space & Physics
The Twilight of Science's High Priests
Books by physics titans Stephen Hawking and Martin Rees recall a bygone golden age, when science seemed capable of anything
Behavior
Don’t Make Me One with Everything
The mystical doctrine of oneness has creepy implications
Policy
Noam Chomsky Calls Trump and Republican Allies "Criminally Insane"
The great linguist and political critic remains hopeful that we can overcome global warming and other threats
Space & Physics
Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress
Philosopher Tim Maudlin sees advances in free will, morality and the meaning of quantum mechanics
Culture
Beauty Does Not Equal Truth, in Physics or Elsewhere
Truth can be ugly, and beauty can lead us astray
Computing
Antiwar Movement Spreads among Tech Workers
Engineering students join Google and Microsoft workers in protesting the tech-industry's enabling of U.S. militarism
Space & Physics
Chasing the Quantum Tantra
Hippy physicist Nick Herbert pursues a lifelong love affair with nature
Behavior
Why the Mind–Body Problem Can't Have a Single, Objective Solution
We cannot escape our subjectivity when we try to solve the riddle of ourselves
Behavior
Oneness, Weirdness and Alienation
A new book about psychedelics conveys their subversive, estranging weirdness
Fitness
Kicking My Caffeine Addiction
A science writer and java junkie struggles to stop abusing the world’s most popular drug
