Maybe it’s the mid-winter gloom talking, or maybe it’s just that I’ve spent the last six months doom-scrolling inside a climate-controlled box, but I find myself craving a very specific kind of movie ...

Our world seems to be fundamentally fuzzy at the quantum level, yet we do not experience it that way. Researchers have now developed a recipe for measuring how quickly the objective reality that we do ...

STANARDSVILLE, Va. — For much of my life, winter was something to be endured. Preferably, indoors. On dark winter mornings, I’d start the day under a light-therapy lamp to mimic sunlight. I’d count ...

If you want to know a political leader’s governing philosophy, you could cut through a lot of bluster by just asking them who their guy is: John Locke or Thomas Hobbes? Anyone who’s taken Poli Sci 101 ...

Free Expression: Pete Hegseth might have gone too far in applying the lesson of ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai.’ Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Associated Press One scandal of our age is the attempt to ...

A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about the essential and contradictory nature of capitalism to the environment and her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. The voluminous ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

In the final minutes of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s stunning tale of grief and nature, William Shakespeare puts on a play. The very first performance of Hamlet comes as a surprise to his wife Agnes (Jessie ...

To some, the use of Max Richter’s best-known song at the end of Hamnet is like a cheat code to get audiences crying. To the composer himself, it’s something else entirely. Photo: Agata ...

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