The Electric Typewriter - Science

How the world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack from the right wing, tech billionaires, and AI.

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With global conflicts increasingly shaped by drones and A.I., the American military risks losing its dominance. Dexter Filkins reports.

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past?

It used to be easy to kill a conspiracy theory. But the internet made them immortal — and more politically powerful than anyone can control.

What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.

LAS VEGAS — There is something unstable at the most basic level about any space with too much capitalism happening in it. The air is all wrong, there’s simultaneously too much in it and not enough of it. Everyone I spoke to about the Consumer Electronics Show before I went to it earlier this month…

Outnumbered and desperate, the nation began hacking cheap consumer drones with explosives — bringing a brutal new form of violence to 21st-century warfare.

Astrobiology is rewiring our understanding of the intimate connection between life and planets as they appear in the universe.

Brooke Jarvis considers the history behind the search for sea level, as described in a new book by Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, and probes what it tells us about science, global warming, and life on our changeable planet.

Corporations sold Americans on the chasing arrows — while stripping the logo of its worth.

One of the oldest, scarcest elements in the universe has given us treatments for mental illness, ovenproof casserole dishes and electric cars. But how much do we really know about lithium?

Earth’s crust teems with subterranean life that we are only now beginning to understand.

3M found that many of its products, including Scotchgard and Scotchban, leached toxic chemicals called PFAS. Sharon Lerner reports on why the company kept making them.

Manvir Singh reviews “But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life,” by Paige Layle; “Sociopath: A Memoir,” by Patric Gagne; and “Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder,” by Alexander Kriss.

I watched 15 hours of COVID origins arguments so you don't have to - but you should!

Kathryn Schulz reports on severe solar storms, which may have the potential to upend many technologies essential to our daily lives, from G.P.S. and the power grid to communications satellites and FEMA emergency-response systems.