Things shifted since 2023. My school—the imperfect place I loved building—shut down. I packed up and moved to New Orleans. Now I am a...
The Trump administration wants to give private energy companies plutonium. The kind stripped from Cold War bombs. Experts call it a bad idea. They...
Silicon Valley has cooked up a scheme that makes my skin crawl. A biotech start-up wants to breed human clones without brains. Specifically. They...
LIGO caught it. Over a decade ago.
It wasn’t a light. It was a ripple. A violent shake in the fabric of spac itself, sent...
Stephen Griffin
2030 is not that far off. Imagine a community college student. Supply chain management track. She doesn’t guess. Before she signs up, she...
London just hit a new May high. Nearly 95 degrees F. It feels like July there. Maybe August. France pushed 99 degrees, Spain broke...
Twenty million years? No. Two hundred.
Imagine a reptile. Small arms. Walking upright. Beak where teeth should be. It looks like a dinosaur, but it’s...
The warning is non-existent. You wake up soaked. The thermostat says seventy. The air feels normal, except you’re sweating through your sheets.
Or it hits...
Finding a story by qntm is rarely an accident. You stumble on a link, click, and suddenly you’re deep in a 40-chapter nightmare about...
Screen time. It eats into everything else. A new advisory from the US surgeon general’s office warns that excessive digital engagement threatens kids’ physical...
Remember the big deal about 1GB in 2004?
It seems ancient now. That little white space was a miracle then, and today Google sits on...
Walking the Via Appia feels like slipping through a tear in time. Past Seneca’s old house, past the cypresses that still guard the way,...
Gold doesn't rust. We all know that. But knowing why has always felt like staring at a closed door.
Two researchers, Santu Biswas and a...
Colossal Biosciences just showed off their “artificial egg.” They say it brings us one step closer to bringing back the dodo. Or the moa....
It is spring. Technically. The Northeast is cooking anyway but up in the northern hemisphere the animals are dropping new arrivals everywhere.
Yellowstone National Park...
