I want a tricorder,” Alex Wiltschko tells me over email. Wiltschko, the founder of the AI company Osmo, is referring to the handheld device used by the Enterprise’s crew in ...

In April of 1793 a new weekly newspaper published its first issue in the small village of Walpole. The Farmer’s Weekly Museum ...

Now that we’re nearly 20 years into the smartphone era, most of us have heard this basic tip for getting better sleep: set your phone down well before going to ...

On Sunday, Nov. 17, 1968, the Oakland Raiders hosted their bitter rivals, the N.Y. Jets, in a much anticipated American League Football matchup.

In poll after poll, Americans say they care about climate change. But then again, they also say they care about democracy, women’s rights and other such ideals. And yet for ...

If, as they look back on this year’s gubernatorial election, voters remember learning anything about the candidates, odds are it’s that Joyce Craig ruined Manchester when serving as its mayor ...

On the eve of Election Day, anthropology professor Alexander Hinton talked to me from a Trump rally, where he was already convinced the Republican candidate would win. He’d been observing ...

This might sound impossibly old-fashioned, but I still like the idea that education is about learning: facts, skills, concepts, research, culture, analysis, inspiration. It’s supposed to enrich our li ...

The racist texts that have pinged the phones of Black Americans after this election show that not even the children are safe.

My daughter’s annual pharmacy bill is routinely a multiple of my salary as a state employee whose family relies on the health benefits that come with my job. That grim ...

It’s hard to imagine a less plausible venue for the annual U.N.-sponsored conference on climate than the dictatorial petrostate of Azerbaijan. Baku, the capital, has a walled medieval center that’s ...

Brad Mills was lying in bed late one night when his phone buzzed with a text message. He could not have been more surprised ...