I needed a restaurant recommendation, so I did what every normal person would do: I scraped every single restaurant in Greater London and built a machine-learning model. It started as a very reasonable problem. I was tired of doom-scrolling Google Maps, trying to disentangle genuinely good food from…

This is the first article of Issue 09. Read our Editor’s Note to preview upcoming articles, which will be published every Monday. By Robert Reason Science seeks truths that outlive those who discover them. English poet William Wordsworth’s observation that “to the solid ground of nature trusts the…

Today, we’re excited to launch AI Voices, which are high-quality, streaming text-to-speech voices. We’ve completely redesigned the text-to-speech player to make it more modern and intuitive. Lastly, we’re launching a major Android update with an improved search experience and a number of other…

The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found. The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some…

The first question I ask my clients is, “How would you like to see the world?” Some answers are charming; they want to see the world as an infant does, everything new and unspoiled by habit and familiarity. Some are more professionally minded and wish for magnification-enhanced, telescopic, UV,…

“I did not invent penicillin. Nature did that. I only discovered it by accident.” —Alexander Fleming Many know the story of Alexander Fleming’s chance discovery of penicillin. Fleming, a bit of an absent-minded professor (and a bit of a slob), left culture plates streaked with Staphylococcus on his…

The Nostromo towing its refinery through the inky blackness of space. “I was really influenced by three films,” Ridley Scott told Fantastic Films in 1979, on the subject of the Nostromo and its claustrophobic corridors. “Not so much in terms of Star Wars, but definitely from 2001 and Dark Star.” The…

A Reporter at Large Daniel Kinahan, an Irish drug dealer, commands a billion-dollar empire from the U.A.E. Why isn’t he in prison? October 20, 2025 Kinahan has lived a strikingly public life in the Emirates, shopping at malls and consorting with famous boxers like Tyson Fury.Illustration by Ben…

I want to tell you a story about a map that never came to be. When I first heard it, in an interview with Katia Naouri in Desired Landscapes,1 its metaphorical power nearly knocked me over. The story itself appeared to me as a map of sorts, the destinations of which were almost innumerable. Very…

Dept. of Medicine The average American celebrates just one healthy birthday after the age of sixty-five. Peter Attia argues that it doesn’t have to be this way. April 15, 2024 In “Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity,” Attia, one of the most prominent longevity evangelists, extrapolates from…

Biological structures exist across a vast range of scales. At one end are whole organisms, varying in size from bacteria only a few micrometers across to mammals measured in feet. These can be seen with the naked eye or with simple light microscopes, which have been in use since the mid-1600s. At…

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Imagine for a moment that it’s late on Election Day, November 3, 2026. Republicans have kept their majority in the Senate, but too many House races are still uncalled to tell who has won that chamber. Control…

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. One common explanation for why children spend so much of their free time on screens goes like this: Smartphones and social-media platforms are addicting them. Kids stare at their devices and socialize online…

Toward the end of March, Rachel Ganz had what she calls “a premonition of doom.” At the time, she couldn’t quite explain this foreboding. She and her husband, Jon Ganz, ages 45 and 49, respectively, were in the midst of what should have been a happy milestone: The couple were planning to move out of…

Standing outside the pub, 36-year-old business owner Rachel took a final tug on her vape and steeled herself to meet the man she’d spent the last three weeks opening up to. They’d matched on the dating app Hinge and built a rapport that quickly became something deeper. “From the beginning he was…

Adam Mastroianni is the author of Experimental History. He studies how people perceive and misperceive their social worlds. His work has been featured in Science, Nature, and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. He has a PhD in psychology from Harvard and a certificate of completion from 137…

I got a bit concerningly obsessed with birds for a few months. Follow Sarah and The Mouth! https://linktr.ee/inkydragon Older bat vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4eqkaHkTAI 💗 Support this channel and join an amazing community: http://www.patreon.com/bennjordan 👀 Stalk me on social media for…

People like to tell the story of how VHS beat Betamax because adult film studios backed VHS. It’s a clutch-your-pearls story that says nothing about why these multi-million-dollar businesses picked one format over the other. The real story is that while Betamax tapes had better resolution and…

30. August 2021, Bahnhof Morges «Calme-toi!» Nzoy hob die Hände, legte die Ellbogen in die Hüfte und streckte die Arme vom Körper. Für eine Sekunde liess er den Kopf hängen, täuschte an, in die eine Richtung zu gehen und ging dann in die andere. Wie beim Basketball. «Get outta here», sagte er. «Get…

Today we launch Issue 08 of Asimov Press. Read our full Editors’ Note and preview upcoming articles on our website. Thanks for reading! Sight has never merely meant the detection of light. In almost every culture, the eye serves as a sacred symbol: the all-seeing Eye of Horus in Egypt, the divine…

Es ist ein kalter Dienstagabend im Februar dieses Jahres und im Luzerner Treibhaus ist nicht viel los. Erst am Wochenende erwacht das Haus mit dem mintfarbenen Anstrich zum Leben – wird zum Club mit hohen Decken, einer grossen einladenden Bar und einer vollen Tanzfläche. An diesem Abend sind hier…

13 Oct, 2025 I read an article yesterday, stating that on average, people spend 4 hours and 37 minutes on their phones per day1, with South Africans coming in fourth highest in the world at a whopping 5 hours and 11 minutes2. This figure seems really high to me. If we assume people sleep roughly 8…

I was 34 years old when I first had the idea for the world wide web. I took every opportunity to talk about it: pitching it in meetings, sketching it out on a whiteboard for anyone who was interested, even drawing the web in the snow with a ski pole for my friend on what was meant to be a peaceful…

Eigenmotivation ist der Schlüssel beim Lernen. Wie aber entsteht intrinsische Motivation? Und wie können Eltern und Lehrpersonen sie bei Kindern und Lernenden fördern? Text: Fabian Grolimund Illustration: Petra Dufkova / Die Illustratoren Dass sich die extrinsische Motivation zum Beispiel durch Lob,…

Manche Kinder bringen von Anfang an mehr Leben ins Haus - sowohl im guten wie auch im herausfordernden Sinne. Im englischen Sprachraum werden sie als "spirited children" bezeichnet; auf Deutsch ist von gefühlsstarken oder temperamentvollen Kindern die Rede. Was hat es mit diesen Bezeichnungen auf…

dynomight · updated Oct 2022 · science effort 1. You’re in the mood for destruction. One day, you hear about this phenomenon of “radiation” where matter gives off energy. You think—perhaps you can harness this property of nature to make a big boom. Apparently matter is made of discrete objects…

Ein Polizeibericht und Videoaufnahmen werfen Fragen auf. Hat das Vorgehen der Polizei überhaupt erst dazu geführt, dass die Anti-Pnos-Demonstration vor zwei Jahren eskalierte? Eine Recherche in Kooperation mit der Republik, Teil 2. Wie Katz und Maus, nur dass es kein Spiel ist: Szenen während der…

There’s a tech industry habit of second-guessing “what would Steve Jobs have done" ever since he passed away, and most of the things people attribute to him seem like guesses about a guy who was very hard to predict and often inconsistent. But recently, we have one of those very rare cases where we…

September 22, 2025 • 2 min read I was lucky enough to make a few friends my first semester of college. We ended up hanging out quite a bit during those early months. We’d all get excited for the weekends because Friday nights meant going out to party. Everyone except for Anna, that is. Anna was…

Blueprints: Nicola Stäubli—Co-Founder of MONoPOLE You are in control of your own cookies We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience, analyse our traffic and advertising marketing. By clicking "Accept All", you consent to our use of cookies. Customize Consent Preferences We use cookies to…

S Sometime in the late 20th century a naked man bent over, spread his ass and took a picture. Eventually that picture, known as Goatse, became one of the most venerable memes in internet history. Who is this man, and how did his ass take over the internet? The story of Goatse begins with a…

Publication Date: SEPTEMBER 18, 2025 Sandia news media contact Kim Vallez Quintana kdquint@sandia.gov505-537-3294 Media Downloads Download image Caption Courtney Sovinec examines the packaged multi-patterned target used to create a new type of X-ray image at Sandia National Laboratories. Credits…

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom. An engineer by trade, she can execute the kind of perfect block letters that only come with years…

Cindy Bi is not supposed to be telling me this story. First, there’s the confidentiality clause. When Bi, a venture capitalist who claims to have invested in a dozen unicorns, hired a surrogate to carry her only male embryo in 2023, both parties agreed to keep the details private and away from the…

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The pleasure is in foreseeing it, not in bringing it to term. — Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions This post is about managing ADHD. It is divided into two sections: “Strategies” describes the high-level control system, “Tactics” is a list of micro-level improvements (really it should be…

Startseite|Bern|Bern: Wichtige Polizeiarbeit, fragwürdige Politisierung MeinungMedienfreiheit unter Druck – Wichtige Polizeiarbeit, fragwürdige Politisierung Der Fall ist schweizweit wohl einzigartig: Nach einem umstrittenen Polizeieinsatz vor vier Jahren hat sich die bernische Politik in die Medien…