How Solar and Wind Got So Cheap, So Fast
The technological shift that made an agreement in Paris possible.
The technological shift that made an agreement in Paris possible.
Attacks on clinics are horrific—and utterly pointless. They don’t deter women from procuring abortions.
Lawmakers want to tighten the visa-waiver program to keep Islamic State militants out of the U.S.—and this time, they have the White House’s support.
The Russian Defense Ministry is accusing the Turkish president and his family of personally profiting from the oil trade with the Islamic State.
How a puzzling autopsy report opened a new chapter in football history
Christy Marx's mission was to put images of powerful women in animated shows for kids.
An annual award for literature’s worst coupling often forgets that any erotic scene can be cringeworthy out of context.
He may be known as an unyielding conservative, but on issues from national defense to political experience, the Texas senator is staking out a position as the goldilocks candidate.
Wading through the hype about CRISPR
Can art depicting empty classrooms shape education policy?
Members of Parliament have begun a 10-hour debate that will end in a vote on whether Britain should expand its air strikes against the Islamic State from Iraq to Syria.
Despite the care they may receive from their adopted families, many students have lower academic performance and diagnosed disabilities.
A new book explores the evolutionary link between collaboration and morality that makes our species unique.
Why are so many kids with bright prospects killing themselves in Palo Alto?
A true illustration of our place in the universe
One of the men charged with a female medical student's rape and murder speaks in an exclusive interview.
In his 40-year career, the animator has excelled at bringing three-dimensional characters to his two-dimensional films.
A visual vignette of one Greek village’s unusual Easter tradition
Recreations of the most classic independent movies—can you name all 11 films?
Anwan "Big G" Glover fights to keep the musical beat of the city alive.
In Kern County, California, cops kill 1.5 people per 100,000 residents—prompting an investigation by The Guardian, but not by state or federal overseers.
A week after officials released a video of an officer shooting Laquan McDonald 16 times, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the superintendent had lost the trust of the community.
The search for an impartial panel has highlighted the extent of the city’s entanglement with its troubled criminal-justice system.
Just weeks after taking office, Stephen “Greg” Fisk was found dead at his home, prompting shock and speculation.
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan on Tuesday announced the arrival of their daughter and pledged to give away 99 percent of their Facebook shares.
A black student posted “White Only” signs on water fountains to highlight systemic racism—and provoked an uproar.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter says they will assist rebels fighting the Islamic State and be in a position to carry out “unilateral” strikes in Syria.
Amid an affordable-housing crisis in New York City, the short-term rental company released data to show most of its users are just trying to make ends meet.
Mass-market success often leads critics to dismiss even high-minded novels as overly sentimental.
A look at a few of the policy proposals that are too aggressive for the current political climate
Managers who believe themselves to be fair and objective judges of ability often overlook women and minorities who are deserving of job offers and pay increases.
Some Britons are turning away from expensive flats and taking up residence on urban waterways.
The generation has been called lazy, entitled, and narcissistic. Their bosses beg to differ.
Some of the country’s most renowned doctors argued that “hydropathy” could cure everything from hiccups to cancer.
The competition is fierce, the key players are billionaires, but the path—and even the destination—remains uncertain.
Months after it announced that it was hacked, the agency has finally put together an inventory of its own servers.
In the American West, there are ruins everywhere.
Is Blinkist, a nonfiction-book summary app, the best way to cram information into my brain?
Captivating tales of science, technology, and health from around the web
Despite all the hype about how it has connected the world, the web is more insular than you might think.
A guide to the most important climate deal in years. [Possibly.]
A blast near a central train station has injured at least one person.
Investigators say the passenger plane crashed as a result of technical failures and the crew’s subsequent response.
President Obama says Turkey and Russia should work together to defeat ISIS.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shook hands for the first time in years at the global climate conference in France on Monday.
French authorities used emergency powers to arrest more than 200 demonstrators ahead of Monday’s global climate conference.
Movies and TV shows have long relied on unrealistic depictions of how cybersecurity works. That’s beginning to change.
Major Lazer's “Lean On” is the top-streamed song of the year, probably because it encapsulated a lot of its trends.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s grueling experience filming ‘The Revenant’ might add him to a long list of actors who’ve found awards glory via endurance.
Alexandria faced its latest threat as the other crew members tried to make it back.
The longtime Laker, former league MVP, and five-time champion announced he will retire at the end of the season.
The sport is becoming an enterprise where underprivileged young men risk their health for the financial benefit of the wealthy.
Critics of the president’s climate agenda are telling the world it stands on shaky ground.
House and Senate negotiators announced an agreement to reauthorize federal transportation programs.
The Paris attacks have brought new proposals, but legislators seem no closer to passing a resolution.
The Democratic presidential candidate is calling for $275 billion in new spending on roads, bridges, rails, and airports, but even that might be well short of what the nation needs.
Jeb Bush, John Kasich, and other presidential contenders appease Donald Trump at their own peril.
The Republican frontrunner’s abrupt cancellation of a press conference with 100 black pastors is symptomatic of his struggles with African American voters.
What I learned from attending a town-hall meeting and listening to students’ concerns
At least they didn’t go for the giant, spring-loaded needle traps.
To fulfill its revolutionary promise, the gene-editing technique will need to be edited.
“Maybe we need to become different people in relation to the natural world. And maybe that isn’t such a wildly utopian thought.”
The research behind “nonsense” words and what makes them so funny
Just in time for this month’s climate change talks in Paris.
Tardigrades are sponges for foreign genes. Does that explain why they are famously indestructible?
Scores of highly qualified students are failing to secure spots at the Golden State’s public universities.
Conversations are underway at Princeton over how to handle Woodrow Wilson’s legacy.
Non-Asian students are increasingly spending their Saturdays immersed in China’s language and culture.
Why one journalist wanted to grade Finland’s schools
In a remote Montana town, a quest to help students break the cycle of poverty
Most people are horrified by the mere memory of their preteen years. That might be in part because they weren’t reading the right stuff.
A Denver-based teacher tapped an increasingly popular method to get his high-schoolers invested in their AP Geography classwork.
Yet another product that has become gendered for no reason
Critics of the HIV-prevention pill say it's not as good as safe sex. That's a false comparison, and a dangerous one.
The cards Overweight Haters Ltd. is handing out to passengers on the Tube aren’t just cruel; they’re ineffective.
For health agencies tracking global vaccine coverage, the disease is the canary in the coal mine.
Medically necessary treatments like gender-reassignment surgery and hormone-replacement therapy are also an investment in reducing patients’ future health expenses.
People’s canine companions make for good icebreakers, and can overcome the barriers humans put up.
How the death of voicemail is changing the way physicians communicate with their patients
A bracket to find the most terrible person on television
Time once more for one of my favorite holiday traditions: the eighth annual Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar.
“The mantra in Michigan was a job, a better job, a career: Through work you would experience upward mobility. There was never any evidence that was the case.”
The perks of being physically present. The perks of not being physically present.
In his lifetime, Henry Bendinelli skied a distance twice the circumference of the earth.
While Saint Nicholas may bring gifts to good boys and girls, ancient folklore in Europe's Alpine region also tells of Krampus, a frightening beast-like creature who emerges during the Yule season, looking for naughty children to punish in horrible ways—or possibly to drag back to his lair in a sack.