A New (Fiscal) Year’s Resolution

Americans Are Wealthier Than 30 Years Ago. Here's the Data To Prove It.

A Photographic Look at Sputnik 1, the Satellite That Launched the Space Age 69 Years Ago

They Kept Outsiders Away for 500 Years but Their World Is About to Change

One Giant Clam Contains a Month‑by‑Month Diary of the Great Barrier Reef’s Climate 200 Years Ago

Maria Tatar has spent her career tracing evolution of folk, fairy tales, explaining why they still matter

Reason is more than a tool

How Snail Shells Could Be Used to Map Prehistoric Cyclones

Hazy Drug Classification Criteria Invite Dubious Bureaucratic Judgments

Anti-White Speech Stemming from Seattle "Race and Social Justice Initiative" Training May Have Been Legally Actionable Workplace Harassment

Powered by muscle cells, a paper-thin robot swims through watery maze

Will you be wearing an exoskeleton in ten years? The tech that could change how we move

For four years, a fellow saxophonist taped John Coltrane's gigs: 26-plus hours of music. His subterfuge is our gift

Threading the Development Needle

Renée Good's Mom Wanted Trump to Protect Her Family. Her Daughter Was Killed by ICE.

Open Thread

College Founded by 'Christian Nationalist' Pastor Claims Religious Discrimination by Zoning Officials

You Can 'Recruit' a Minor for an Abortion in Tennessee

The Americans Having the Most Sex

Do Not Spare Yourself: An Antidote to Feeling Like You Are Waiting to Start Living

Texas Court Refuses to Enforce Pakistan Court's Divorce Judgment, in $100M-Marital-Community-Asset Case