Beneath a national park famous for its geysers and bison herds sits one of the most powerful volcanic systems on Earth. Most visitors to Yellowstone walk the boardwalks above superheated springs without giving much thought to what lies below. But scientists who study the ground they’re standing on think about little else. The Yellowstone caldera,...

Few purchases trigger more anxiety among buyers than a new washer and dryer. You’re spending anywhere from several hundred to several thousand dollars on machines you expect to use daily for the next decade or more, and the appliance aisle offers precious little help. Every brand claims reliability. Every box promises durability. The marketing tells...

Something strange surfaced out of the Alaskan darkness in the summer of 2023, and it stopped scientists cold. Footage from a robotic camera more than two miles beneath the Gulf of Alaska suddenly filled with a soft, shimmering, golden shape — dome-like, maybe four inches across, pressed flat against a rock like it had been...

Opinion When Donald Trump ran for president under the banner of “America First,” the promise felt simple enough: stop sending money and soldiers overseas, bring jobs home, and put American workers ahead of foreign interests. It was a message that resonated with millions of voters who felt the country had been dragged into too many...

Federal drug policy rarely changes fast. For more than half a century, marijuana sat in the same legal category as heroin and LSD, federally classified as one of the most dangerous and medically worthless substances known to science. Millions of patients used state-legal cannabis to manage pain, nausea, seizures, and PTSD, all while the federal...

Most people picture dementia as something that creeps up in old age, something that belongs to a distant future most of us would rather not think about too carefully. But the science is shifting that picture in an uncomfortable direction. A wave of large-scale research is identifying the dementia risk factors that accumulate long before...

New Yorkers moving to Florida and Texas think they’ve finally escaped one of the country’s steepest tax burdens. They’ve packed the boxes, signed the lease in Miami or Austin, updated their mailing address, and started enjoying a paycheck that suddenly goes further. Then, sometimes months later, sometimes years later, a letter from New York State...

You’ve probably noticed it at the checkout line. The ground beef that used to sit comfortably within your weekly budget now makes you pause. The coffee you buy without thinking costs noticeably more than it did a year ago. And somewhere in the back of your mind, you’re wondering whether this is just a rough...

When news first broke that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been treated for prostate cancer without public disclosure, the reaction was immediate. Here was one of the most recognizable and scrutinized leaders on the planet quietly undergoing radiation therapy while simultaneously managing a war — and nobody knew. The diagnosis, the treatment, and the...

You’ve probably had the conversation before. Maybe at a family dinner, a work lunch, or watching a younger relative scroll through his phone. Something feels different about how some young men talk about women, relationships, even what they expect from marriage. It’s hard to name exactly, but it’s there. The shift feels real, even if...

Pancreatic cancer is the kind of diagnosis that stops time. Whether you’ve heard it from a doctor yourself, watched a family member receive it, or followed a colleague’s quiet, difficult year after it, you know that the words land differently than almost any other cancer news. There’s a particular helplessness that settles in around it...

Artificial intelligence is transforming the modern workplace. By automating various organizational processes, A.I. challenges and even replaces certain roles, significantly impacting the technology sector. According to estimates from Boston Consulting Group (BCG), artificial intelligence will reshape 50% to 55% of US jobs within just the next 3 years. This estimate comes from an analysis of...