Brave New World Dept.
How to Live Forever and Get Rich Doing It
As researchers work to make death optional, investors see a chance for huge returns. But has the human body already reached its limits?
The New Business of Breakups
After getting dumped (by text), a writer investigates the feverish boom in heartbreak apps, breakup coaches, and get-over-him getaways.
A Revolution in How Robots Learn
A future generation of robots will not be programmed to complete specific tasks. Instead, they will use A.I. to teach themselves.
Rise of the Nanomachines
Nanotechnology can already puncture cancer cells and drug-resistant bacteria. What will it do next?
How CoComelon Captures Our Children’s Attention
The animation juggernaut is now streamed for billions of hours each year, including on Netflix and its own YouTube channel. Should we be worried about that?
The Snake with the Emoji-Patterned Skin
In the wild, ball pythons are usually brown and tan. In America, breeding them to produce eye-catching offspring has become a lucrative, frenetic, and—for some—troubling enterprise.
How Jensen Huang’s Nvidia Is Powering the A.I. Revolution
The company’s C.E.O. bet it all on a new kind of chip. Now that Nvidia is one of the biggest companies in the world, what will he do next?
A Young Architect’s Designs for the Climate Apocalypse
Pavels Hedström believes that most architecture separates us from nature. He wants to make nonhuman life inescapable.
The Case of the Descending Bed
Bumblebee Spaces came up with a place for you to keep all your clutter—as well as your furniture. On the ceiling.