Daniyal Mueenuddin’s new novel shows that living in a highly stratified country damages both the rich and the poor.

Ronson's memoir, Night People, is a love letter to late-night 1990s New York City. Ronson would go on to produce music for Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga and other pop superstars.

A pair of hackers found that a vape detector often found in high school bathrooms contained microphones—and security weaknesses that could allow someone to turn it into a secret listening device.

The former NFL player's Lumi Story AI, aims to help middle and high school students work with an AI-powered chatbot to write their own stories, comics and graphic novels.

Following the success of “Why Sharks Matter,” lots of colleagues have asked me if I think they should write a popular science book, or how to approach it. I’ve shared various of t…

The newly elected pontiff, born in Chicago, has ancestral ties to the city’s historic Seventh Ward, according to genealogists at The Historic New Orleans Collection.

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A young Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, the heaviest invertebrate on earth, was filmed in the Atlantic Ocean The colossal squid, the heaviest invertebrate in the world, has been filmed alive in the wild for the first time since it was identified a century ago. Growing up to 23ft (seven metres) long and weighing up to half a tonne, the squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, is the heaviest invertebrate on the planet. The individual captured on film near the South Sandwich Islands, in the south Atlantic Ocean, is a baby, at just 11.8in (30cm) in length. Continue reading...

As a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, Hilton Als's essays and profiles of figures like Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, and Richard Pryor have redefined cultural criticism, blendin...

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Adrienne Edwards is breaking boundaries between performance and exhibition-making, and helping the Whitney Museum come to life while she's at it.

From Kamala Harris to Amanda Gorman, these trailblazing Black leaders are making history in politics, business, entrepreneurship and sports.

Kizzmekia Corbett helped lead a team of scientists contributing to one of the most stunning achievements in the history of immunizations: a highly effective, easily manufactured vaccine against Covid-...

Charles Henry Turner conducted trailblazing research on the cognitive traits of bees, spiders and more

It’s not every day that a director’s debut feature film earns an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. But that’s what happened to RaMell Ross and the movie, “Nickel Boys." Senior arts correspond...

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, to present day cobalt mining. Her new book is Black in Blues.

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today

Canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.

The sci-fi series “Silo” is the latest in a string of popular post-apocalyptic dramas with an increasingly uncanny resonance.

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Laura Nix, an Academy Award nominated filmmaker, created this fantastic documentary with producer Hanne Phlypo about the U.S.

Al Green released a soulful cover of R.E.M’s “Everybody Hurts,” and it whips. Of the song, Green said: “I could really feel the heaviness of the song, and I wanted to inject a little touch of hope and light into it.

Fewer male sea turtles are being born. What does that mean for the future?

"Sunday Morning" anchor Jane Pauley looks back on the life of a music giant: producer, composer and arranger Quincy Jones, who died last Sunday at age 91.

He broke barriers as the first Black physicist in nearly every role. But his identity made him reach for dreams beyond his career as a scientist.

A large container ship “totally removed” a critical pier from Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge

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In an incredibly rare event, the New England Aquarium aerial survey team sighted a gray whale off the New England coast last week, a species that has been extinct in the Atlantic for more than 200 yea...

One of my favorite writers is Octavia Butler because her work is unlike anything I’d ever read. What I love most about her work is that it pushed literary boundaries around gender, violence, race and ...

William H. Johnson won awards in the 1920s but didn’t achieve major commercial success; now he's getting another look.

Rent has skyrocketed in the United States. That means Americans are handing over a bigger portion of their paycheck to their housing costs. They have less money for things like food, electricity, and ...

The start-up is sharing the new technology, called Sora, with a small group of early testers as it tries to understand the potential dangers.

Land is slumping into the ocean, compounding the dangers from sea level rise. A major culprit: overpumping of groundwater.

A new report lays out two very different paths forward.

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New York needs affordable housing. My architecture studio has a plan for where — and how — the city can build 500,00 new homes.

Decades after sending it to design purgatory, the space agency celebrates a logo it still calls the worm.