The village streets, lined with bare trees, were nearly deserted. A few cars sped through the town. Dogs barked from behind the gates of houses. As a pedestrian passed, a curtain was lifted behind a window. In Röszke, a rural town in southern Hungary on the border with Serbia, everything seems bleak and ordinary. The […]
One of the experiment’s volunteers working on an essay while wearing AttentivU glasses and a headset equipped with 32 channels – tools used to measure brain activity (electroencephalogram) and information flows in different areas of the brain (dDTF) – in Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 2024. NATALIYA KOSMYNA There are 800 million weekly users of ChatGPT worldwide […]
Two orcas grooming each other with a strand of kelp in the Salish Sea, an area of the Pacific Ocean between British Columbia and the state of Washington, June 2024. CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH, NMFS NOAA PERMIT 27038 “You will never find what you are not looking for.” This Confucius quotation is something science proves […]
A few days after US and Israeli strikes targeted the Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan sites in Iran, what can be said about the effects − and effectiveness − of such actions? To provide clarity, I am offering two reminders and three corrections by drawing on the findings of independent research on military nuclear programs. First, […]
Lee Jung-jae (Seong Gi-hun) in season 3 of the series ‘Squid Game,’ created by Hwang Dong-hyuk. NO JU-HAN / NETFLIX NETFLIX – On demand – Series After the rebellion of the”outcasts,” the curtain has risen on season three of Squid Game − released on Friday, June 27, on Netflix − revealing utter desolation. The rebellious […]
Letter from Tokyo The cover of the manga ‘Watashi ga Mita Mirai’ (‘The Future I Saw’) by author Ryo Tatsuki. RYO TATSUKI/ASUKASHINSHA Brace yourselves, tourists! A major disaster is set to strike Japan on July 5. On that day, according to a vision by mangaka Ryo Tatsuki, “the ocean floor between Japan and the Philippines […]
Attorney of Sean “Diddy” Combs, Xavier Donaldson, leaves the US federal court on the day the jury reaches the verdict on several counts in the Sean “Diddy” Combs, sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial at US federal court in Manhattan, New York City, on July 1, 2025. JEENAH MOON / REUTERS The jury in Sean […]
US President Donald Trump visits a temporary migrant detention center informally known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in Ochopee, Florida on July 1, 2025. EVELYN HOCKSTEIN / REUTERS President Donald Trump on Tuesday, July 1, toured a new immigration detention center surrounded by alligator-filled swamps in the Florida Everglades, suggesting it could be a model for future […]
US player Coco Gauff eyes the ball as she returns it to Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska during their women’s singles first round tennis match on the second day of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 1, 2025. HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP Coco Gauff […]
On Boulevard Saint-Michel, in Paris, June 30, 2024. CAMILLE MILLERAND/DIVERGENCE FOR LE MONDE By 11 am on Monday, June 30, it was already 30°C in the Paris’s 14th arrondissement. Two homeless friends, Christophe and Laurent (who did not wish to give their last names), had found a spot of shade across from a storefront closed for […]
