Technology

7 Art Books for Your March Reading List

Read up on the hidden history of occult influences on modernism, French sign painters, the Finnish painter who bucked convention, incarcerated artists, and more.

Mar 10, 2026

Don't Believe What Art Basel Qatar Is Trying to Sell You

I fled Qatar to live freely as a queer person. A country that criminalizes LGBTQ+ existence should not be celebrated as a global hub of creative freedom.

Mar 10, 2026

Over 6,000 Sign Letter Opposing Russia’s Venice Biennale Pavilion

The petition, signed by cultural figures such as Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova, comes as the European Union threatens to pull Biennale funding over Russia's inclusion.

Mar 10, 2026

US and Israel Strikes Damage 17th-Century Palace in Isfahan

The Safavid-era Chehel Sotoun palace, known for its richly detailed frescoes, is among several landmarks impacted in the recent attacks.

Mar 10, 2026

Please, No More Disaffected White Girls

Anika Jade Levy’s “Flat Earth” is navel-gazing, ouroboric, masturbatory — a Dimes Square novel for Dimes Square people.

Mar 10, 2026

The Whitney Biennial Is Here

Our first impressions, Chinatown storefront art, and things to do on a glorious spring day.

Mar 10, 2026

Ask Ethan: Do signals degrade as they travel through space?

Here on Earth, signal degradation is a real problem whenever we transmit information to one another. Signals like sound, light, and gravity spread out through space in three dimensions, becoming weake...

Mar 06, 2026

AI that acts before you ask is the next leap in intelligence

H. Ross Perot, former presidential candidate and founder of multinational IT company Electronic Data Systems (EDS), once said, “Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.”&nbs...

Mar 06, 2026

Starts With A Bang podcast #127 – Satellites and space pollution

When most of us were children, and we went to a rural area with clear skies overhead at night, we were all greeted by the same familiar sight: a dark night sky, glittering with many hundreds or even t...

Mar 07, 2026

JWST peers inside a dying star’s “exposed cranium”

Whenever stars are born, their masses determine their fates. The (modern) Morgan–Keenan spectral classification system, with the surface temperature range of each star class shown above it, in k...

Mar 09, 2026

Why pain doesn’t need to teach you anything

American culture demands that pain be productive. Historian Kate Bowler explores how the obsession with finding meaning in suffering turns into what she calls “purpose monsters”: the need to make ever...

Mar 09, 2026

Gretchen Rubin’s simple secrets for a happier, less cluttered life

Gretchen Rubin is a genuine multi-hyphenate. She began her career as a clerk in the Supreme Court and switched to writing when she had an idea for a book, Power Money Fame Sex: A User’s Guide, w...

Mar 09, 2026

The right way to be a scientific contrarian

There are, in general, two ways in which scientific advancement occurs. There’s the slow, incremental change that represents most scientific advances: where the existing scientific foundation ge...

Mar 10, 2026

The idea so strange Einstein thought it broke quantum physics

Jim Al-Khalili introduces the technologies emerging from the second quantum revolution: computers that exploit superposition to solve problems that would take today’s best supercomputers billion...

Mar 10, 2026

“If it sounds literary, it isn’t”: The deceptively simple rules behind good writing

Partway through our conversation about his new book Good Writing: How to Improve Your Sentences, Neal Allen lost his train of thought. He turned toward his wife and co-author, Anne Lamott. The two rif...

Mar 10, 2026

Consciousness may be more than the brain’s output — it may be an input, too

From a scientific perspective, studying consciousness is a bit like trying to describe the singularity inside a black hole from the window of a spacecraft in its gravitational orbit. We can see how th...

Mar 10, 2026

Climate disasters caused societal upheaval 3,000 years ago in China, study of 'oracle bones' hints

Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are using oracle bones, archaeological evidence and climate modeling to find out wh...

Mar 05, 2026

Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year. What is stopping us from doing it?

A new study reveals restoring mangroves could save $800 million in storm damage, protect 140,000 people from flooding, and remove almost triple the amount of CO2 produced by cars in the U.S. every yea...

Mar 06, 2026

In people with epilepsy, sleeping after a seizure may trigger more seizures

Epileptic seizures alter sleep by prolonging the stage that's central to memory formation, potentially predisposing the brain to "remember" how to trigger subsequent seizures more easily, a small huma...

Mar 09, 2026

Falling meteorite smashes hole in roof of German house after spectacular 'fireball' explosion over Europe

A German town has been peppered by meteorites after a stunning "fireball" exploded in the skies over central Europe. One extraterrestrial fragment landed in a bedroom after punching a soccer ball-size...

Mar 10, 2026