The best essay boils down to the strongest argument. So, if you find yourself struggling to come up with one, drop the ...

Cheng, R. , Liu, J. , Hao, L. and Wu, D. (2026) On the Application of the Infinitesimal Method to Two Categories of Problems in College Physics. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 14, 378-389. doi: ...

“AI in distribution is like sex in high school: everyone’s talking about it, hardly anyone is doing it, and those who are… aren’t doing it well.” A room of distribution leaders laughed at a vendor’s ...

A student-organized “tech fast” at St. John’s College led to a mass unplugging by curious undergrads. Some found clarity; others were just trying to find their friends. A student-organized “tech fast” ...

A tech C.E.O. explains why A.I. probably won’t cure diseases anytime soon. Hint: You still need humans. By Kevin Roose Casey Newton and Rachel Cohn The leaders of the biggest A.I. labs argue that ...

Reading a person’s mind using a recording of their brain activity sounds futuristic, but it’s now one step closer to reality. A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences ...

The conference billed itself as the first to feature all A.I.-generated research. Yuichiro Chino via Getty Images Should scientists use artificial intelligence to help conduct research or write up the ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. In 1934, Edwin Embree made an informal list of “the dozen greatest ...

Machine-learning models can speed up the discovery of new materials by making predictions and suggesting experiments. But most models today only consider a few specific types of data or variables.

In the US, more than 90% of corn plants are genetically modified to withstand weed-killing chemicals like glyphosate, to make their own insecticides, or both. For soybeans, over 94% are genetically ...

College ranking systems are increasingly using measures of access, ROI and social contributions to assess educational quality. They're yielding some surprising results. The Washington Monthly magazine ...