"The Werner X does not leap out all at once but gradually appears over an interval of 2 hours and 20 minutes as the Sun rises ...

Simulated invasion. Taiwan will conduct its largest military exercises in history next week, simulating a Chinese blockade ...

Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky that even native English speakers with college degrees may struggle to get ...

Yearling Sale has settled into a reliable format over the last several years, starting off its first week with a two-day Book ...

The historic Moravian District in Bethlehem was added to UNESCO’s World Heritage Site list in 2024 When I first visited ...

Anthropic scores a qualified victory in fair use case, but got slapped for using over 7 million pirated copies ...

The USA has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Shelves of books and reams of media exposés have revealed the inhumanity of American jails, prisons, and immigration detention ...

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...

The US State Department told embassies and consulates they must vet student visa applicants for “hostile attitudes towards our citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles ...

American writer and essayist Leslie Jamison has won the 2025 Weston International Award. The $75,000 prize is a companion to the existing Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, which ...