A paper appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a strikingly simple answer to a longstanding ...

What actually matters in AI right now? It’s getting harder to tell amid the constant launches, hype, and warnings. To cut ...

Analysts predicting Yemen’s entry into the Iranian conflict are already drafting headlines about Red Sea shipping crises. They may wait a long time to use them. The Houthis have stayed out, but not ...

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I test a lot of coffee machines. Like, a lot of them. The Ratio Four is the small-batch brewer I use to try new kinds of coffee. Coffee is the original office biohack and the nation’s most popular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A week into the war in Iran and the Trump administration has given several reasons for why it carried out the strikes alongside ...

Some officials are trying to eliminate the process of changing our clocks each fall and spring. Here’s why it hasn’t been implemented yet. Carol Yepes via Getty Images This weekend, we spring forward ...

People say it every day without thinking ― “two o’clock,” “six o’clock,” “eight o’clock sharp.” But what is the purpose of that little “o” and apostrophe? Is it short for something? Why do we only use ...

Recently, as I learned the news of young Tatiana Schlossberg’s passing from cancer, once again the words fight, battle, and courageous filled the headlines. They are words we hear often when cancer is ...

During Lent, many Catholics abstain from eating red meat on Ash Wednesday and all Fridays. This practice is a spiritual act of sacrifice, penance, and self-control, not a dietary rule. Abstaining from ...

In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of Kyle Chayka’s column, Infinite Scroll. Chayka will return in March. Forty years ago, Bill Weiss, a student at Columbia ...