In 2010, physicists in Germany reported that they had made an exceptionally precise measurement of the size of the proton, the positively charged building block of atomic nuclei. The result was very puzzling.Randolf Pohl of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and collaborators had measured the proton using special hydrogen atoms in which the…

“The Family” is a new documentary series on Netflix, based on the work of journalist Jeff Sharlet — whose books promise to expose “the secret fundamentalism at the heart of…

I’m not sure I’ve ever met an opioid user who didn’t want to quit, and as an emergency room doctor, I’ve met a fair number of users. But the chemical need of the addiction can be indomitable. And the nature of that dependence is often misunderstood. It’s not only the high that keeps most users…

Hey all. This is Week-in-Review, where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged…

Imagine a billionaire with an abiding interest in science, but also in having sex with young girls. He’s famous, our billionaire, and associates with what used to be called boldface names, some of whom know—they’d have to, right?—about his habits. But they let it go. And eventually the billionaire’s name gets associated with all sorts…

In its first half-decade of existence, PopSocket has grown into one of the most popular — and imitated — smartphone accessories on the market. In 2018 alone, the company generated…

Film may have largely disappeared, but the photographic is sticking around. We've covered the best instant printing cameras that use Fujifilm's Instax technology for the last year or so. They produce Polaroid-style prints, but there's another option: Zink printing.Zink is short for "zero ink." Zink eliminates the annoying need for (and running out of) ink…

Did you know that the painter Rockwell Kent, whose splendorous Afternoon on the Sea, Monhegan hangs in San Francisco's de Young Museum, worked on murals and advertisements for General Electric and Rolls-Royce? I did not, until I visited Gallery 29 on a recent Tuesday afternoon, phone in hand.Because the de Young's curators worked with Google…

I just fulfilled a childhood dream: I made a videogame. OK, it's barely a game. It's not challenging—you can complete it in a few minutes, and the one-bit graphics make old Atari games look sophisticated by comparison. But I made a game.If I'd been more industrious in my youth, I could have made some sort…

Tuesday was Apple's unofficial holiday, the one where a parade of executives each take the stage to tell us how many cameras the new iPhone 11 has. (The answer is three—or two if you go for the version that doesn't cost more than your laptop.)We put out an explainer and preorder guide, but there's another…