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How to Be Creative
The science of creativity is relatively new. Until the Enlightenment, acts of imagination were always equated with higher powers....
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Was Stonehenege Built For the Sound Effects?
The origins of Stonehenge have long baffled historians - was it intended as a monument for the dead, a...
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Marilynne Robinson: Reclaiming a Sense of the Sacred
Over the years of writing and teaching, I have tried to free myself of constraints I felt, limits to...
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Neanderthal Cave Paintings May Be World’s Oldest Works of Art
The world’s oldest works of art have been found in a cave on Spain’s Costa del Sol, scientists believe....
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Molecules From Scratch Without the Fiendish Physics
A suite of artificial intelligence algorithms may become the ultimate chemistry set. Software can now quickly predict a property...
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Online Gamers Achieve First Crowd-Sourced Redesign of Protein
Obsessive gamers’ hours at the computer have now topped scientists’ efforts to improve a model enzyme, in what researchers...
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How the Unconscious Mind Boosts Creative Output
A study from the Netherlands finds allowing ideas to incubate in the back of the mind is, in a...
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How Deep is Blue? The Present Future of AI
We face the field head-on to evaluate what the pundits are saying, what scientists are building, and how close...
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The Infinite Library: An interview With Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier coined the term virtual reality and now regrets it, he's a computer genius and a philosophic genius...
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Is Music Dead?
David Cope, the author of more than seventy published compositions and a professor at the University of California at...
