Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. As the Illinois governor, J. B. Pritzker, begins a run for a third term and ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b can be seen moving around its star in this 17-year timelapse created using "AI-driven ...

Online fast fashion retailer Shein has broken the industry's equivalent of the sound barrier by turning digital trends into products within days. Strangely, sales are booming even though customers ...

Indiana Fever star Kelsey Mitchell has sparked new speculation over her WNBA future after publishing a cryptic post Monday night. Taking to her X account, three-time All-Star Mitchell said she doesn't ...

It’s likely just an evolutionary development to keep us out of harm’s way, but the horror genre is very good at using it ...

Scientists have found new evidence that melting mountain glaciers may alter life as we know it. Melting ice could force millions of people from their homes, disrupt water supplies, and worsen ...

Every year, millions of tons of plastic are discarded, while a vanishingly small share of this waste is properly recycled. To understand how plastic pollution affects marine environments, researchers ...

Dr. Nicolette Bembenek is one of a handful of civil surgeons in Vancouver approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to perform the medical exam needed to obtain a green card. She said when ...

The US SEC raises concerns about the balance between crypto surveillance and privacy. Paul Atkins believes that cryptocurrency has the potential to become a strong tool for financial surveillance. US ...

Staying aware of your surroundings matters. That includes hearing smoke alarms, appliance beeps or a knock at the door. Still, real life gets busy. You wear headphones. You get focused. Sounds slip by ...