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Fingernails
Love is pain in several ways in “Fingernails.” In the near future of Christos Nikou’s dystopian sci-fi film, they’ve gotten compatibility down to a science. To measure your affection, you and your partner can each have a fingernail pulled, which will then be put into a machine, testing whether either, neither, or both of you…
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Spider-Man 2 Swings into Action with Incredible Gameplay and Clever Storytelling
It’s a really good time to be a Spider-Man fan. The two best superhero entertainment properties of the year, by quite a large margin, are “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” and now “Spider-Man 2,” the long-awaited Sony PlayStation exclusive that serves as both a sequel to 2018’s “Spider-Man” and 2020’s “Spider-Man: Miles Morales.” The developers at…
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Fight Over Covid Lab Leak Stalls Virology Research
Scientists doing “gain-of-function” research said that heightened fears of lab leaks are stalling studies that could thwart the next pandemic virus.
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Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.)
Shedding the concept “completely strikes at our sense of identity and autonomy,” the Stanford biologist and neurologist argues. It might also be liberating.
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Deer Are Everywhere, but We Barely Know Them
A decade-old research project in Pennsylvania has been revealing the secret lives of familiar woodland mammals.
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The Salmon on Your Plate Has a Troubling Cost. These Farms Offer Hope.
Land-based aquaculture is still coming into its own, but it stands to upend an industry plagued by environmental concerns.
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As the Strike Wears On, Actors Return to Restaurants
The Hollywood cliché of performers working as servers in restaurants is back.
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The Best Restaurants in New Orleans
There’s plenty of great Creole and Cajun food, of course, but also outstanding Vietnamese, Indian and Trinbagonian cuisine.
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A Deep-Fried Pho Sparks Scandal at the State Fair of Texas
A debate over who gets credit for inventing a dish proliferates on and off the Dallas fairgrounds.
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Wawa pizza tastes like cheese-topped cardboard. So why does it exist?
Do-everything Wawa has introduced pizza pies to its dinner menu, but these pies have zero personality.