Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise, was born before the Civil War. Scientists have now sequenced his genome to reveal what’s behind his extreme longevity, so we can live longer too.

When OpenAI announced its surprise solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, it produced one proof for humans and one for computers – however, they don't match

Palestinian Vice President Hussein Al Sheikh has ​informed France that a Palestinian legislative election planned for November 28 will be postponed ‌for several months because of worsening conditions ...

Some 287 candidates have been nominated for the prestigious prize, which was won last year by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

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New York officials claimed the man was with a five-year-old child in his car while an ICE agent shot at him, although the child is physically unharmed.

Ken Paxton has publicly said he would “love to have” John Cornyn’s support after their bruising Republican primary runoff in the Texas Senate race. But privately, Paxton has grown frustrated with the ...

Here is how to report news, via a New York Times journalist: This is all purely factual, but these are also facts that allow anyone who isn’t a fascist and/or a sadist to draw the appropriate conclusions. I don’t believe the extent to which sadism — that is, a sexual orientation which consists of getting […]

The bill follows a broad political agreement reached in June 2025 but would still allow satire, parody and political or social criticism unless it constitutes misinformation posing serious dangers to ...

LARB presents the first entry in “Pasts Imperfect,” a new column that explores the impact of ancient pasts on the present.

In opposing the California wealth tax and helping push through the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger, the governor is doing the bidding of billionaires.

Free-roaming Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programme

The president’s speech is getting filthier.

A secret ICE database titled "Agitator Log" tracked protesters despite officials denying such a list existed. USA TODAY sued for the records.

Q+A with Steven Hale of The Nashville Banner, who watched as Christa Pike survived two lethal injections.

“That’s absolutely egregious,” one expert said.

The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.

Nine out of 10 people who have visited a physical bookshop in the last six months say the experience improved their mood, says a new poll from the Booksellers Association.More than three-quarters of t...

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