A persistent theme in Republican campaigning these past few years has been the effort to portray Democrats in general, and President Biden in particular, as being soft on China — in contrast to Donald Trump’s supposed toughness.One of the major planks in the G... More »
In 1978, the Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gave a commencement address at Harvard, warning us about the loss of American self-confidence and will. “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West to... More »
NASA’s WB-57 research jets will be used to study the eclipseAmir Caspi Across North America, solar scientists will be studying April’s total solar eclipse to view the strangest part of the sun: the corona. Seen fleetingly as a bright halo that appears only dur... More »
Michael, your allegorical paintings present themes of disaster and climate change. While it is an existential threat, is there any hope for humanity, at all?I suppose my honest answer is I try to be hopeful, but I fear things are going to get a lot worse befor... More »
These beautiful books seen above were created by last year’s winners: Sander Coers, Miya Turnbull, Ashley A. Ross, Jeremy Starn, Barbara Gabrielle (and Benny Zenga’s is still in progress). You can also see the previous year’s winners here. Independently owned ... More »
In a sign that the tech industry keeps getting weirder, Meta soon plans to release a big update that transforms the Ray-Ban Meta, its camera glasses that shoot videos, into a gadget seen only in sci-fi movies.Next month, the glasses will be able to use new art... More »
View of the moon’s surface taken from the SLIM lander’s tilted positionJAXA Most landers we send to the moon operate for a single lunar day – about two Earth weeks – before being overtaken and killed by the extreme cold of lunar night. But Japan’s Smart Lander... More »
Authorities started cleaning up the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Thursday after ending the search for the remaining four missing workers, presumed dead, who fell into the water when the bridge went down.Eight people plummeted into t... More »
With chronic water shortages afflicting the Colorado River, discussions about how to cut usage have increasingly focused on a thirsty crop that consumes an especially large share of the river’s water: hay that is grown to feed cattle and produce beef and dairy... More »
In 2004, Donald Davis and fellow scientists at the University of Texas made an alarming discovery: 43 foods, mostly vegetables, showed a marked decrease in nutrients between the mid and late 20th century.According to that research, the calcium in green beans d... More »
Ashlee Wiseman, a waitress at a Sizzler in Idaho Falls, Idaho, was 10 weeks pregnant when a nurse phoned with crushing news: a test of fetal DNA in her blood had found that her baby girl had trisomy 18, a catastrophic genetic abnormality, and was unlikely to s... More »
A decade ago, respected automobile designer Henrik Fisker was coming off the bankruptcy of his first car company when he contemplated his comeback. Instead of a luxury hybrid sedan, what he envisioned was an all-electric SUV that would appeal to the masses wit... More »