An anthropologist explores the brave new world of virtual warfare—and the fraught relationship between humans and machines.

In the early 1900s, Joseph Mikulec traveled some 175,000 miles on foot, gathering 60,000 signatures in a leather-bound album that is now up for sale

We will never truly advance our ethical relationship with other animals until we stop treating them as chattels for use

Ever since it entered public consciousness in the 1980s, infrastructure has been synonymous with decline.

Great article on the illusion of confidence, the cognitive bias which inflates self-assessment.

Physicists are using quantum math to understand what happens when black holes collide. In a surprise, they’ve shown that a single particle can describe a collision’s entire gravitational wave.

Marx’s idea that societies were naturally egalitarian and communal before farming is widely influential and quite wrong

A new exhibition spotlights 70 examples of sensual imagery discovered in the Roman city

Every limb of him had a language.