Brave New World Dept.
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.
Baywatch, the Sequel: Shark Time!
After five reported bites on Long Island and a recent chomp in the Rockaways, New York’s lifeguards have added predator-spotting drones to their tool kit.
The Future of Fertility
A new crop of biotech startups want to revolutionize human reproduction.
Will the Ozempic Era Change How We Think About Being Fat and Being Thin?
A popular, growing class of drugs for obesity and diabetes could, in an ideal world, help us see that metabolism and appetite are biological facts, not moral choices.
Biomilq and the New Science of Artificial Breast Milk
The biotech industry takes on infant nutrition.
Can A.I. Treat Mental Illness?
New computer systems aim to peer inside our heads—and to help us fix what they find there.
Yam Karkai’s Illustrations Made Her an N.F.T. Sensation. Now What?
World of Women confronts the limits of selling cartoon avatars on the blockchain after the crypto bubble burst.