Reporting
How Perfectly Can Reality Be Simulated?
Video-game engines were designed to mimic the mechanics of the real world. They’re now used in movies, architecture, military simulations, and efforts to build the metaverse.
How to Die in Good Health
The average American celebrates just one healthy birthday after the age of sixty-five. Peter Attia argues that it doesn’t have to be this way.
Are Flying Cars Finally Here?
They have long been a symbol of a future that never came. Now a variety of companies are building them—or something close.
What Is Noise?
Sometimes we embrace it, sometimes we hate it—and everything depends on who is making it.
The Ex-N.Y.P.D. Official Trying to Tame New York’s Trash
The city has lived in filth for decades. Can Jessica Tisch, a scion of one of the country’s richest families, finally clean up the streets?
Maggie Rogers’s Journey from Viral Fame to Religious Studies
The singer-songwriter’s sudden celebrity made her a kind of minister without training. So she went and got some.
Battling Under a Canopy of Drones
The commander of one of Ukraine’s most skilled units sent his men on a dangerous mission that required them to elude a swarm of aerial threats.
Park Chan-wook Gets the Picture He Wants
With “The Sympathizer,” the director of “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden” comes to American television.
How Chinese Students Experience America
COVID, guns, anti-Asian violence, and diplomatic relations have complicated the ambitions of the some three hundred thousand college students who come to the U.S. each year.
The Hottest Restaurant in France Is an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet
Les Grands Buffets features a seven-tiered lobster tower, a chocolate fountain, and only what it considers traditional French food. Gourmands are willing to wait months for a table.