Inside the Growing Scientist Migration to Europe

Inside the Growing Scientist Migration to Europe

It all started promisingly enough. French biologist Gabriela Lobinska had enjoyed her Ph.D. training, researching how organisms change over time. Arriving at Harvard Medical School in September 2024, she hoped for more of the same. She planned to look at how, over the course of a lifetime, healthy cells change into diseased ones. Donald Trump…

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Sam Altman Defends A.I. Energy Use With Human Comparison, Sparking Debate

Sam Altman Defends A.I. Energy Use With Human Comparison, Sparking Debate

Sam Altman challenged critics of A.I.’s water and electricity consumption. Photo by John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images Sam Altman is pushing back on mounting criticism over the environmental toll of A.I. The OpenAI chief has dismissed claims about A.I.’s water consumption as “fake” and drawn comparisons between the electricity required to power A.I. systems and…

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Why You Can’t Remember Being a Toddler

Why You Can’t Remember Being a Toddler

Think back to the first thing you remember: Candles on your birthday cake, the wiry fur of a childhood dog, the smell of your mother’s perfume. Whatever the memory, chances are you were already at least a couple years old when those events took place. Children younger than three are intensely aware of the world…

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All the Most Exciting Fashion on the 2026 BAFTAs Red Carpet

All the Most Exciting Fashion on the 2026 BAFTAs Red Carpet

Gracie Abrams and Paul Mescal. Getty Images for BAFTA After three awards shows, all in Los Angeles, Hollywood’s A-list is heading across the pond. Yes, it’s time for the BAFTAs, the annual ceremony that honors the best in British and international cinema. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the BAFTAs are…

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Sterling Ruby’s “Atropa” Is a Quiet But Profound Reflection on Entropy

Sterling Ruby’s “Atropa” Is a Quiet But Profound Reflection on Entropy

Installation view: Sterling Ruby’s “Atropa” at Sprüth Magers in New York. Photo: Genevieve Hanson American artist Sterling Ruby has long engaged not only with the chaotic condition of our human present but also, more broadly, with that primordial chaos from which everything originates. His work engages with entropy, expressed both through physical and organic decay…

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How to, Like, Stop Saying Filler Words

How to, Like, Stop Saying Filler Words

The tiniest quirks in our speech can change how we’re perceived. But, um, filler words aren’t the villains they’re made out to be. They’re, you know, working behind the scenes. “We group them all together as these kind of garbage words,” says Valerie Fridland, a professor of linguistics at the University of Nevada, Reno, and…

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