Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. When a patient is considered brain dead, the ethical decision is ...

Sara Imari Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University and the Santa Fe Institute. Walker develops theories and experiments toward characterizing the origin of ...

Petter Törnberg is a computational social scientist at the University of Amsterdam, studying the intersection of AI, social media and political life. Justus Uitermark is a social scientist at the ...

William A. Haseltine is a former professor at Harvard Medical School and the School of Public Health. He is the founder of multiple biotechnology companies and the chair of the nonprofit ACCESS Health ...

Like a prism, AI will reveal the civilizational differences between China and the U.S., making visible the invisible within each society.

Jacob Dreyer is an editor and contributing writer for Noema based in Shanghai. “What appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space ...

Alexander Etkind is a professor at the department of international relations at Central European University. This essay is adapted from his forthcoming book, “Russia Against Modernity” (Polity, 2023).

Zeve Sanderson is the executive director of NYU’s Center for Social Media & Politics, and a research affiliate at the NYU Center on Technology Policy. Scott Babwah Brennen is the director of the ...

SHANGHAI — On the third day of the 2022 COVID lockdown, my wife told me that she was pregnant. Our life in China during that stage of the pandemic was not exactly hellish, but it certainly felt like ...

Leon McCarron is a writer and broadcaster. He is a Yale World Fellow and the recipient of the Cherry Kearton Medal from the Royal Geographical Society. Photography by Emily Garthwaite. AL CHEKA, Iraq ...

Matthew Ponsford is a London-based writer and researcher. Even in early summer, when Sherwood Forest is thick with lime-colored new leaves, you start to see it from a few hundred paces away. Its trunk ...