The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week. The problem: That solution looks broken, too. The US job ...

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch the em dashes if you tell it to. The telltale sign that supposedly signals text written by AI has popped up everywhere in recent months, including in school papers, ...

The Kansas Republican Party has been upended by a Politico report that leaders of its Young Republican Club engaged in racist and borderline Nazi chats with peers around the country. Dion Lefler The ...

It didn’t take long for OpenAI’s text-to-video-and-audio AI generator app, Sora 2, to melt down into a messy pile of potentially copyright-infringing AI slop. The app’s prominent use of recognizable ...

Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International Affairs, Wake Forest University While U.S. and global solutions seem far off, policies to limit harm from microplastics are gaining traction at ...

Microplastics seem to be everywhere—in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. They have turned up in human organs, blood, testicles, placentas and even brains. While the full health ...

UN resolution condemns Hamas and Israeli attacks in Gaza US and Israel criticize resolution as harmful, 'publicity stunt' Resolution supported by Gulf Arab states, opposed by US and Israel UNITED ...

We’ve all been there. Someone sends us a text while we’re in the middle of something else. We glance at it and tell ourselves we’ll respond later. The next ...

While its origins are often associated with the post-war reconstruction of Europe, the style was also adopted globally as a powerful expression of modernity and national identity in many newly ...

Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...

Artificial intelligence has infected every corner of academia — and now, some scientists are fighting back with a seriously weird trick. In a new investigation, reporters from Japan’s Nikkei Asia ...

Keep going. If you stack as many blocks as you can, what is the farthest overhang you can achieve before the entire structure topples? Is it possible for the tower to extend a full block length beyond ...