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Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Points
The world must not continue to bear the intolerable risks of research with the potential to cause pandemics.
By Alina Chan
Jeremy Ashkenas is the graphics director for Opinion at The New York Times.
The world must not continue to bear the intolerable risks of research with the potential to cause pandemics.
By Alina Chan
Chronic illness has a way of picking apart your mind and breaking your heart.
By Giorgia Lupi
As we face our own “Oppenheimer moment,” it’s worth looking at perspectives on A.I. that you may disagree with.
By Jeremy Ashkenas
Five A.I. practitioners — an industry godfather, an artist, an ethicist, a writer and a computer scientist — share their experiences working with artificial intelligence.
By Phoebe Lett and Jeremy Ashkenas
As urban offices continue to empty out, great cities must embrace a shift from vocation to recreation.
By Edward L. Glaeser and Carlo Ratti
The Ohio train derailment and chemical fire are emblematic of a rail industry that does not take safety seriously enough.
By David Sirota, Rebecca Burns, Julia Rock and Matthew Cunningham-Cook
How artificial intelligence can reimagine art from our past and influence our future.
By Frank Pavich
If urban highways enforce racial barriers between neighborhoods, why do officials keep spending so much to expand them?
By Adam Paul Susaneck
Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest have impacted the air quality in the region and sent plumes of smoke and ash across North America as far east as New York and Pennsylvania.
By Troy Griggs, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Jeremy Ashkenas and Jugal K. Patel
A new U.S. weather satellite provided a timelapse view of three dangerous hurricanes.
By Jeremy Ashkenas and Jugal K. Patel