When the Commonwealth Government reorganised its innovation responsibilities for the fourth time in a decade, public servants ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Sergio Mendoza Hochmann / Getty; Pierre Michaud / Gamma-Rapho / Getty. With respect to Andrews, in the midst of all this—the testosterone-addled executive branch ...

Imagine you are Donald Trump. Almost a year has passed since you were returned to the White House—winning more minority votes than any Republican candidate in decades. Republicans control the House ...

Abstract: We propose a parameter optimization method for achieving static equilibrium of discrete elastic rods. Our method simultaneously optimizes material stiffness and rest shape parameters under ...

At a birthday party for Elon Musk in northern California wine country, late at night after cocktails, he and longtime friend Larry Page fell into an argument about the safety of artificial ...

Of all the design disciplines, graphic designers might be the most insecure. The introduction of any new technology can feel like a threat to the field’s existence. Think of desktop publishing in the ...

There’s a conversation about Artificial Intelligence happening in school administration offices and teacher social media circles. It’s full of words like “disruption,” “guardrails,” and “the future of ...

Where Peter once stood in the place of Pan, we can hear the voice that changes everything. Over 40 years ago, filmmaker Steven Spielberg terrified theatergoers with a movie that quickly embedded ...

University of Portsmouth provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths. Most chewing ...

AI company founders have a reputation for making bold claims about the technology’s potential to reshape fields, particularly the sciences. But Thomas Wolf, Hugging Face’s co-founder and chief science ...

I n 1903 George Bernard Shaw wrote Man and Superman, a comedy of manners featuring the character Jack Tanner — political firebrand, descendent of Don Juan, and author of The Revolutionist’s Handbook ...

It took a superstar couples therapist to help me see beyond my anger. The author Daniel Oppenheimer and his wife, Jess, rewatching a recording of their Zoom sessions with the couples therapist and ...