Across a Swiss meadow and into its forested edges, the drone dragged a jumbo-size cotton swab from a 13-foot tether. Along its path, the moistened swab collected scraps of life: some combination of ...

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At 77, the Booker Prize-winning British novelist Ian McEwan shows no signs of slowing down. His new novel, What We Can Know, ...

Ecuador’s Amazon region has revealed insects and spider webs trapped in amber that dates back 112 million years. The findings, published in the journalNature Communications Earth & Environment, ...

Lee, has written a new memoir called This is for Everyone. More than 35 years after he built the first website, he reflects ...

There is a whole world inside soil, shaping our everyday existence.“Soil is fundamental to the functioning of Earth,” ...

Measuring The Backlash: How did men react to recent American social movements? 58% feel politicians talk too much about wokeness. 38% felt #MeToo was beneficial to society. 42% felt that the Black ...

Discovering that a paper contains data that appears to be fraudulent is an academic researcher’s nightmare. It leads to professional blacklisting, reevaluation of entire bodies of work, even a ...

When the U.S. government signs contracts with private technology companies, the fine print rarely reaches the public. Palantir Technologies, however, has attracted more and more attention over the ...

You may have recently seen claims, on Tiktok and elsewhere, that ginger shots can wipe out an oncoming cold, cure gastrointestinal issues, and even counteract aches and pains. But are they a legit ...

The Department of Justice’s long-running case against Google, in which Judge Amit Mehta ruled in April that Google monopolized the digital advertising market on the open web (and reaffirmed that ...