A game designer explains how the forces behind QAnon have used the tools of alternate-reality games, creating a highly immersive fiction that they claim is true.
The violence that has marked Donald Trump’s final days in office is the culmination of four years of willful distortions of reality and disregard of the rule of law.
The molecular biologist Joe Osmundson studies DNA replication. He explains how the new strain of SARS-CoV-2 may have emerged, and what we should expect to happen next.