China is increasingly embracing the mantle that comes with being a global superpower. Its rise is forcing the rest of the world to assess its credentials as a potential hegemon and a provider of ...

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A generation of people online just realized it’s possible to have a thought and keep it to themselves. Enter “365 buttons,” the cryptic New Year’s resolution that’s now become a meme about time, ...

This film uses archival clips and documents to examine the way climate change evolved from nonpartisan topic to divisive issue. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Darth Vader never said, “Luke I am your father.” So why do we all think he did? Here’s the science behind this strange phenomenon—and how AI is poised to send it into overdrive. Cape Town street art ...

In 1961, MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz was inputting numbers into a weather prediction program. His model was based on a dozen variables, the value of one being .506127. When he ran the model again, ...

This week’s question comes from Thomas, who asks: I disabled the JavaScript just to check the content of my webpage, but unfortunately I could not see any content except the banner H1 tag. Will it ...

On the Nintendo Today App, Nintendo released a teaser for the mysterious C button — Cartridge Games (@cartridgegames.bsky.social) 2025-04-01T15:20:11.494Z Does this mean Miis are back? Maybe! And ...

The physical home button is no more, but there's a workaround you can use on pretty much any iPhone. With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and ...

In 1972, the US meteorologist Edward Lorenz asked a now-famous question: Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? Over the next 50 years, the so-called “butterfly ...