Of everything I saw on TV in 2025, the one show I thought was the very best, and has haunted me ever since, was the four-part Netflix drama Adolescence. It's the story of a young teen accused of ...

A landmark real-world experiment gave the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccine could lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, finally giving concrete data to ...

An assortment of absurd, useful and funny words and phrases entered the vernacular this year. How well do you know them? By Miya Lee and Kendall Blomfield By the end of 2024, words like slop, brat, ...

“Continue?” It’s one of the oldest words in video games. You stumble. You put in another quarter. You try again. Hey, you’ll get ‘em next time. Never has that sentiment been more true than in 2025 — ...

Variety is, as they say, the spice of life, and 2025 provided a fantastic array of different video games. We’ve survived and extracted from the robot-ruled battlefields of Arc Raiders, adventured ...

The winter solstice marks the official start of winter, bringing the shortest day and longest night of the year. In 2025, the winter solstice will occur on Sunday, December 21, signaling the beginning ...

Takeaways from an eventful 2025 election cycle. By Caroline Soler, Christine Zhang and Alex Lemonides Is there such a thing as an “off year” for U.S. elections? The elections in 2025 were not nearly ...

So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...

Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025. But, there were also plenty of positive developments in 2025 that offer hope ...

Engadget has been reviewing the latest devices for over two decades, adding well over 100 in-depth product tests to our tally every year. For 2025, we have compiled a list of the best gear we reviewed ...

Four ways to think about this year's reckoning. Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web app called ChatGPT in late 2022, it changed the course of an entire industry—and ...

The year 2025 has been filled with cultural absurdities. Toothy plush dolls became one of the hottest and most elusive collectibles. A fiery feud between two rappers boiled over at the Super Bowl. And ...