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When Aerospace giants like Boeing and Airbus reveal some ambitious concept for the future of urban aerial transport, most showcase electrically powered variations on ...

Late last month—shortly after the special counsel’s office delivered the results of Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion in the 2016 election to the Justice Department (and ...

If you're eager to don HTC's professional Vive Focus Plus headset, you won't have much longer to wait... although you will pay a hefty sum for the privilege. The company has announced ...

In a keynote address on Monday at the company's Cupertino campus, Apple announced a slew of new services. Apple News+ will offer a subscription service to access magazines, digital news outlets ...

Google, in its unending quest to go from search engine company to purveyor of absolutely everything, is looking to establish itself as a serious contender in the video games industry. Late last ...

THE CHINA TRIP was only supposed to last 10 days. For Konstantinos Karatsevidis, the 23-year-old CEO of a new gadget maker called Eve, it was just a quick check-in to make sure production ...

“No problem is too small, too big, or too weird” is Talley’s motto. Sure, she can do a love spell, but she’d rather face off with ghosts and demons.

How microbes could upend America’s toxic dependence on nitrogen fertilizer

Sometimes, if you want to understand how nature truly works, you need to break things down to the simplest levels imaginable. The macroscopic world is composed of particles that are — if you

Astronomers have taken the first ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy. It measures 40 billion km across - three million times the size of the Earth - and has been ...

She’d been told that childbirth was going to be painful. But as the hours wore on, nothing bothered her — even without an epidural. “I could feel that my body was changing, but it didn’t hurt ...

If, on a certain evening about sixty-­six million years ago, you had stood somewhere in North America and looked up at the sky, you would have soon made out what appeared to be a star. If you ...

SOME OF THE most difficult (and most important) experiments in the history of physics had to do with making connections between different concepts. What about the connection ...

IN OCTOBER 1854, a government entomologist was inspecting some farmland outside the town of Ottawa, in northern Illinois, when he came upon a disturbing scene in a cabbage patch.

Just a year ago, scientists presented results that seemed almost too good to be true: Carbon sheets only a single atom thick, called graphene, took on a pair of important physical properties when

American companies continue to build surveillance tools that are used to violate human rights. Workers who refuse to comply deserve protections.

Once the very embodiment of Silicon Valley venture capital, the storied firm has suffered a two-decade losing streak. It missed the era’s hottest companies, took a disastrous detour into ...

“I’m no psychologist, and I’m no economist or big deal politician, either. My goal is to share with you what my life has taught me rather than pretend to tell you what everybody should think or ...

It has been a poor week for German economic news. On Friday, we learned that industrial production in February - excluding energy and construction - had fallen. The previous day, new ...

Middle-class families are seeing their incomes stagnating as they are squeezed by the ultra-rich taking a bigger slice, says an international report from the OECD economics think tank. The ...

Late last month—shortly after the special counsel’s office delivered the results of Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion in the 2016 election to the Justice Department (and ...

A year ago, I lived in San Francisco. I spent over $2,000 a month for one bedroom in a two-bedroom apartment in the Mission District. Outside of working on my startup, I devoured books on my ...

Hypothetical question for you, just hear me out: If a stranger asked you for a million dollars, would you just give it to them? Personally speaking, I would not. This is in part because I do not ...

Butter coffee, keto, intermittent fasting. Does eating to prevent brain fog actually work? At the end of 2015, Geoffrey Woo was preparing to embark on his first experiment with radical ...

The cause of the most common type of childhood cancer has been a century-long debate among those in the medical community. Now, thanks to the work of Prof. Mel Greaves, of the Institute of Cancer

Plant-based meat just went mainstream. Starting April 1, Burger King is selling a new kind of Whopper that it claims is identical in taste to its traditional beef patty, with just one ...

Sometimes when my boyfriend texts me to tell me he’s on his way home from work, I type back, “my legs are broken.” I don’t know why I insist on this code when we both know what it means. It’s ...

Chances are you're probably thinking about food right now in some capacity. Maybe it's close to dinner and you're wondering what you are going to eat. Maybe you had a really good lunch and are ...

When Tom Shicowich’s toe started feeling numb in 2010, he brushed it off as a temporary ache. At the time, he didn’t have health insurance, so he put off going to the doctor. The toe became ...

If procrastination isn’t about laziness, then what is it about?

The US organization representing doctors that care for children is taking a public stand against sugary drinks. The American Academy of Pediatrics this week issued a joint statement with the ...

the cassina research and development centre presents the ‘hommage à pierre jeanneret’ collection, exploring le corbusier‘s renowned capitol complex. four pieces have been developed by the italian

Ennead Architects has completed Denning House, the new home for the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program at Stanford University. Working with the University and the Denning Family, Ennead Design ...

As we count down the days until the start of Milan design week, editor Amy Frearson predicts the big trends that will emerge this year, from circular design to off-grid living. This year's ...

As engineers, we must embrace the idea that a well-designed user experience and user interface can be the key to the success or failure of a hardware product.

IKEA isn't officially unveiling its first Sonos-powered speaker until April, but that isn't stopping the furniture store from offering a look in the meantime. As you can see here, the ...

When Jessica Marquez’s boyfriend ripped his favorite jean jacket, he asked if she could fix it. Marquez, a “visible mending” maker, teacher, and author, began researching ...

When children choose what to be when they grow up, they often follow in their fathers’ footsteps. But mothers are powerful, too. Working sons of working fathers are, on average, 2.7 times as ...

One of the big problems with traditional building is that it is fixed, often inflexible, and expensive. That’s one of the reasons shipping container architecture has been so popular. But there is

From Big Hank’s Superman references on hip-hop’s first chart-topping single “Rapper’s Delight” to Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz playing Blade in the vampiric antihero TV series, to 50 Cent adapting ...

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. But when the going gets tough for Matthew McConaughey, he gets going to the beach. In the first few months of this still-young year, McConaughey

With John Wick—the third installment of which is out this May—Hollywood's most enigmatic leading man once again established himself as a bona fide action star. But who is he, really? Alex ...

Every Wednesday around 2 p.m., over 10 weeks spanning April to June 2016, HBO would release a batch of photos from the upcoming episode of Game of Thrones. My task, along with that of two ...

Internet trolls, by definition, hate everything. They hate women running for office, they hate non-white people in Star Wars, and boy oh boy do they hate female superheroes. We here at TMS ...

The bouncer wasn't letting Nirvana into the club. The band's album "Nevermind" was only a few days from being released, and the trio from Aberdeen, Washington was only a few months from ...

When Terry Gilliam began work on “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” one of its producers was about 11 years old. That would be Gilliam’s daughter, Amy, who is now 41. The movie has to be one

It has been ten years since the season finale of one of the best animated children’s television shows, Avatar: The Last Airbender. Ten years since 5.6 million people watched Aang defeat the ...

How microbes could upend America’s toxic dependence on nitrogen fertilizer

Arabs, Greeks, Turks, Azerbaijanis—all are united by their love of dolma, the centuries-old dish of stuffed grape vine leaves.

Butter coffee, keto, intermittent fasting. Does eating to prevent brain fog actually work? At the end of 2015, Geoffrey Woo was preparing to embark on his first experiment with radical ...

Plant-based meat just went mainstream. Starting April 1, Burger King is selling a new kind of Whopper that it claims is identical in taste to its traditional beef patty, with just one ...

When Tom Shicowich’s toe started feeling numb in 2010, he brushed it off as a temporary ache. At the time, he didn’t have health insurance, so he put off going to the doctor. The toe became ...

In hindsight, there were plenty of indications over the past decade that American politics were headed toward the partisan sniping and low-stakes media obsessions that crowd the news cycle today.

One of the most health-beneficial plants on earth – ginger, is abundant in medicinal properties, among which it reduces inflammation, stimulates digestion and boosts immunity.

Have you ever eaten wasabi? If you answered “yes” to that question, you are likely mistaken. Most sushi eaters—even in Japan—are actually being served a mixture of ground horseradish and green

The US is threatening to veto a United Nations resolution on combating the use of rape as a weapon of war because of its language on reproductive and sexual health, according to a senior UN ...

Men and women, young and old, native Texans and immigrants, they rose to ask lawmakers to protect life, describing a “genocide” and foreseeing the arrival of “God’s wrath.” The act of public ...

For all the campaigns encouraging people to recycle more, few lay out exactly what happens to our recyclables once they go into the blue bin. Rather than our milk jugs magically reincarnating ...

Former Vice President Joe Biden began his first speech since numerous women publicly accused him of inappropriate touching ... by joking about inappropriate touching. “I just want you to know.

On May 18, 1976, a tourist named W.J. Schaap, of St. Louis, Missouri, settled his bill at the front desk of the Hotel Commodore and became the final guest to leave the premises. The hotel, a ...

In 2017, Alison Klayman took on a project few others would want to tackle: shadowing Steve Bannon, the former Trump adviser and Breitbart CEO, to make a documentary about him. Working with her ...

The villagers are despondent. Helpless against the ogre in the white castle looming over their town, they hired Sir Robert, peerless paladin of republican virtue, and sent him forth against the ...

Why hasn’t the world copied it?

In November 2018, a 66-year-old man named Tommy Thompson was wheeled into Judge Laurel Beatty Blunt’s courtroom in Columbus, Ohio, clad in a dark blue suit and looking like he had just served ...

Meditation is undeniably one of self-care’s all-time greats. Few other millennia-old practices have stood the test of both time and scientific scrutiny. Additionally, it’s a simple process, you ...

Some whiters used to drink when the words didn't come. Now we have the internet. Whenever I get stuck writing, instead of sliding open the bottom drawer with the whiskey bottle, I load up The New

“I’m no psychologist, and I’m no economist or big deal politician, either. My goal is to share with you what my life has taught me rather than pretend to tell you what everybody should think or ...

Anxiety about tech dependence—how social media is rewiring brains and worsening lives, or how tech companies are building monopolies and spying on users—is as old as the iPhone itself. A new book

Courtney Stodden’s Hollywood Hills home is haunted by the ghost of Marilyn Monroe. Stodden has only been in the house for two months, and there are still unpacked boxes waiting to be opened.

Sometimes when my boyfriend texts me to tell me he’s on his way home from work, I type back, “my legs are broken.” I don’t know why I insist on this code when we both know what it means. It’s ...

If you were interested in drugs around 2011, you’ll remember Silk Road. It was the online marketplace that first introduced the world to postal order contraband—and inadvertently—Bitcoin. ...

Once the very embodiment of Silicon Valley venture capital, the storied firm has suffered a two-decade losing streak. It missed the era’s hottest companies, took a disastrous detour into ...

Some whiters used to drink when the words didn't come. Now we have the internet. Whenever I get stuck writing, instead of sliding open the bottom drawer with the whiskey bottle, I load up The New

Anxiety about tech dependence—how social media is rewiring brains and worsening lives, or how tech companies are building monopolies and spying on users—is as old as the iPhone itself. A new book

Courtney Stodden’s Hollywood Hills home is haunted by the ghost of Marilyn Monroe. Stodden has only been in the house for two months, and there are still unpacked boxes waiting to be opened.

A year ago, I lived in San Francisco. I spent over $2,000 a month for one bedroom in a two-bedroom apartment in the Mission District. Outside of working on my startup, I devoured books on my ...

It has been ten years since the season finale of one of the best animated children’s television shows, Avatar: The Last Airbender. Ten years since 5.6 million people watched Aang defeat the ...

If, on a certain evening about sixty-­six million years ago, you had stood somewhere in North America and looked up at the sky, you would have soon made out what appeared to be a star. If you ...

When Tom Shicowich’s toe started feeling numb in 2010, he brushed it off as a temporary ache. At the time, he didn’t have health insurance, so he put off going to the doctor. The toe became ...