The day of the bombings, July seventh, Seven-Seven, a day of doubles, Gavin Thomas, the fund researcher, had been unharried.

On work, idealism, and Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley.

I didn’t tell G that the Corporation hardly ever brings back the corpses of employees who’ve died in space; that they just collect them up for a while then thrust a batch out through an atmosphere to incinerate them.

I remembered that I’d learned Swahili, that I spoke French and German fluently. Was I a spy? I also knew Russian, Arabic, and Spanish. It was obvious that languages came easily to me. Who is this man? I kept asking myself. Who is Abby?

And a flood of racist memes, Trollface with turban and beard, Nyan Cat with turban and beard, worries about MS-13 rampages and looting, the “illegals” who are waiting to murder your family as civil society cracks.

A natural next step in the CEO’s Amazonian evolution.

Sometimes I was being chased by furies—monsters with the heads of women and bodies of huge black birds—and the castle was my refuge. Other times I wandered its halls looking for my husband, poking my head in each room and noting the tapestries and gold-framed oil paintings.

One simulation to another, am I wrong.

you have trouble saying your name and you say it anyway

I take the empty injector and bring it to my neck. I hit the trigger and stab and hope maybe I’ll get something. I hit the trigger again.

Communing with the author of the new short-story collection Hybrid Creatures.

I have no name unless I make / it back alive

Philosopher Don Ihde discusses a human future shaped by technology.

What are days? Just him and / the left-over spiders.

"Ms. Hart murdered her three children about a year after using our device. What the machine told her: OFFSPRING WILL NOT LEAD HAPPY LIVES."

In Mexico, watching cinema on wheels.

The leaders of the cyborg movement invite humanity to design itself. What happens if we accept?

The biotech entrepreneur on using lab-grown food and other forms of biomimicry to solve global crises.

Uterine transplants are frontier science, but they offer hope of possibility for trans women and others seeking parenthood.

How rethinking disability and assistive tech can make the world more functional and more fun.

The artist and theorist on the possibilities for music after sound.

Can thought-decoding technologies help us worry less?

Kelly Lydick speaks with Anthony Michael Morena about hybrid writing and the Voyager space mission as art.

How the military, adobe houses, and finger-sized solar panels can pave the way to a more democratic distribution of energy.

The Future of Cities: The journalist and She Shapes the City co-founder on the women behind Nairobi’s rapidly changing identity.

The Chinese video game artist on emotion-centered play, collaboration beyond language, and the next generation of indie blockbusters.

Henry Peck interviews Fred Kaplan about the shadowy world of cyber war.

Is sponsored content the death of journalism?

Future of Language: Scientists are experimenting with ways for people to communicate using only their minds. But at what cost?

The personal and the political converge at Laura Poitras' new exhibit.

Area 51 has been hidden from the American people. For a long time. For their own good.

When art becomes just another trusted brand

Boundaries of Nations: The researchers on the politics of mapmaking, rethinking invisibility, and why dots are changing the way we look at cultural borders.

The artist discusses his new show on the chemist Rosalind Franklin, the nature of history, and the role of the internet in dismantling colonial legacies.

A year ago he brought the pox blankets back to the natives after a well-meaning group of illegal tourists stole them away. On return he had a sort of quiet breakdown.

Do Hollywood blockbusters fuel corporate space exploitation?

Empathy and immersion in virtual worlds.

A journey towards cold, hard, shiny food.

Can a distinction be drawn between developing nuclear power and nuclear weaponry?

The poetics of information overload.

Boundaries of Gender: In medicine, the work of care and the work of data converge.

The disappearing woman and life on the internet.

Accountability towards ecological threats of Industry. Reaction to the surroundings.

What if fracking came to a town near you?

The Washington Post is supposed to expose CIA secrets. Amazon is under contract to keep them.

How Silicon Valley is running the world, and destroying San Francisco.

How the "bikelash" was overcome in New York and other cities.

The ascension of science in so many facets of our everyday lives has not sparked a revitalization of belief in the power of reason.

Art and programming converge in Kynd's digital brushstrokes

A new book reveals the hidden physical infrastructure of the internet.

Author Misha Glenny discusses the escalating danger of cyber-crime, its impact on civil liberties, and why hackers should be nurtured for their creativity and skills.

When writer Rivka Galchen and neuroscientist David Linden get together, the boundaries of science, emotion, and memory blur.

Director Micha X. Peled's Bitter Seeds is a compelling portrait of families and biotechnology in modern India.

Photographer Philip Scott Andrews intimately documents the final flights of the Space Shuttle

As of this writing, Kony 2012 has been on YouTube for seven days and has attracted more than 70 million viewers, but is the organization that created it telling the truth?

The greatest water crisis in the history of civilization. The grimmest show on Earth.

As we near the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, it is important that we consider how we choose to remember.

Some “nutty” ideas tried years ago by “wild and crazy” Latin American mayors might offer inspiration for a world seeking urban reinvention.