Americans love science and revere innovation, almost as a rule, and politicians of every stripe have spent the better part of a century promoting and protecting both. However imperfect the resulting ...

North Korea’s Ninth Party Congress defined the new Five-Year Plan as a “stage of stabilization and consolidation, and gradual qualitative development.” This framing should not be dismissed as mere ...

THERE IS a category of organizational investment that rarely generates enthusiasm in the boardroom. It does not carry the promise of artificial intelligence (AI), the urgency of cybersecurity, or the ...

The moment new 2026 earbuds slip into place, older ones can feel like they belong in a different decade. Bass seems thinner. Voices lose texture. Details fade. The music has not changed, but something ...

There’s a well-known movie trope in which a hacker takes control of the traffic lights in a city, causing general mayhem or ...

The FDA approved a vaccine for mumps nearly 60 years ago, so why are some areas of the United States experiencing outbreaks now, and who should be concerned?

South Africa’s new minister of forestry, fisheries and the environment, Willie Aucamp, has provided his first substantive indication of how he understands wildlife conservation. It does not appear in ...

Mumbai: In a disturbing incident that has shocked the city, a woman has been booked for allegedly forcing her six-year-old daughter to beg at a busy traffic signal near Wilson College junction in ...

On Feb. 21, Sten Gould turns 100 years old. His wartime journals have preserved the voice of a soldier who copied Nazi morse code transmissions, walked through Hitler's bombed-out home and came home ...

Thermal scanning at ports of entry is not as effective in keeping rare deadly pathogens out as one may hope, says Hsu Li Yang from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.