Sagittarius A* is nobody's fault. There was no meeting at which it was approved (but that might make for a cool scene in a sci-fi movie). In contrast, each item and action that contributes to the exte...

Nvidia’s CEO asked during the recent podcast with Ezra Klein: “Would any multi-hundred-billion-dollar company, a $1 billion company or a $100 million company, ever ship products that are unsafe?”

We all live downwind. Literally, from a factory or a freeway shedding microplastics with every mile driven. Metaphorically, in a world shaped by the consequences of others — a warming climate, an emptying ocean, harms we inherit rather than choose. The costs are real; the accounting is incomplete.

For years we have been told that physical books are on their way out. First electronic books would replace them. Then smartphones would destroy our attention spans. Then streaming entertainment would ...

Tucked inside the landmark settlement is another settlement, writes Jason Kint.

TMW cartoon for Aug. 25, 2026

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

As Longaberger's iconic headquarters sit empty, the baskets survive as artifacts of a national identity that commodified craft and packaged settler colonialism as heritage.

Shedding heat will require ingenious new designs

Why did Brazil’s democratic institutions hold firm while those in the United States so quickly wilted?

An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once.

In my first weeks as Executive Director of EFF, I’ve been reminded every day how consequential this moment is in determining what kind of future we will have. We are on the edge. What each one of us s...

We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.

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Brutality towards detainees and protesters continues to unfold in Newark, NJ. The Handbasket was on-site to report.