By Alexander Stone An AI singer has signed a record deal. A multi-million dollar one, apparently. The press releases are calling it a ‘bidding war’.…
By Alexander Stone A piece of England is for sale. Not just a field or a farm. A proper, biblical chunk of Northumberland. Nine thousand…
By Alexander Stone You read these stories about space travel, and they always have a certain clean, heroic sheen. The gleaming white suits, the technical…
By Alexander Stone So, the Nobel announcements have landed. The annual ritual where a handful of academics are briefly pulled out of their labs and…
By Alexander Stone The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been announced. And the committee, in its infinite wisdom, has decided the best way to explain…
By Alexander Stone Every decade or so, a new system emerges that promises to solve the fundamental problem of being human. It offers a blueprint,…
By Alexander Stone Our modern quest for wellbeing has become a complicated, and often expensive, affair. We chase engineered supplements, bio-hack our sleep with wearable…
By Alexander Stone There is a spectre haunting the modern workplace. It drifts through open-plan offices, lingers in the dead air of Zoom calls, and…
The Shroud of Turin has long thrived on ambiguity. For centuries, that faint, sepia-toned imprint on a fourteen-foot length of linen has existed in a…
By Alexander Stone In the highlands of Bolivia, on a hilltop known to local farmers but never explored by researchers, an ancient temple has emerged…