NEW PAGES, NEW PATHS

A new discovery when you return.

New questions, curated reading paths and meaningful changes. Re-edited collections are distinguished from newly written articles.

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CURATED READING PATH

The same number can mean something different.

Game probabilities, the timing of moving images, and AI electricity demand: our first feature issue connects existing articles. What needs to stay the same when we compare numbers? Follow three subjects to explore the question.

This issue re-edits existing articles into a new path. It does not add newly written articles; the catalogue remains at 31.

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FOUR NEW ARTICLES

Behind a headline and deeper into a favourite pastime.

Four questions explore AI electricity demand, image provenance, game probabilities, and frames in films and games. Each has a comparison or case exhibit suited to its question, in Japanese and English.

FINDING YOUR WAY

Three reading rooms to match your curiosity.

Understand now, Follow your passions, and Discover the world: choose a world on the home page and continue into its articles and reading room. Search, categories and My bookshelf provide other ways in.

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Earlier editorial work

Seven chapters through Earth and humanity.

From a forming planet to life, humans, farming, cities and writing, and a connected world: a permanent collection combines evidence comparisons and a timeline. Begin at the first chapter or choose an era.

Enter Earth and Humanity

Time, measurements and the shape of information.

Questions about standard time, paper, kitchen measurements and printing connect in features that cross subject boundaries. Read the articles and their sources, then follow the next question.

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Updates are editorially prepared. Articles and news are not automatically published. Each article provides its own source-check dates.