Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania turned human blood cells into early sperm cells by transplanting engineered tissue onto a mouse’s kidney, according to a study published this month in ...

In February 2026, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) sent a short test email carrying the subject line “Hello Universe” from a newly built spacecraft processor, marking the start of ...

New evidence from Wonderwerk Cave suggests early humans were handling fire far earlier than once believed, deep inside a place no wildfire could reach.

I don’t remember ever not being a feminist. I toddled in marches of the 1970s with my mother. She became a second wave feminist in the 1960s after being denied a mortgage without a male guarantor and ...

Something sinister is going on with cuteness. Over the last five years, we’ve seen the sudden appearance of cute Facial ID Recognition surveillance, cute government health messaging, cute military ...

A vast new gravitational wave catalog, known as GWTC-5.0, went online for the first time on May 26, 2026, adding 161 newly confirmed signals from colliding black holes and bringing the total number of ...

“Global Mean Sea Level is rising and it will continue to do so for centuries.” That is not a warning from an activist group. It is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, writing in plain ...

Islamists, leftists and conservatives have long debated whether Islam is compatible with western liberal capitalism. Many have framed the history of capitalism as beginning in medieval Genoa and ...

In an essay for the New York Times 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones argues that the United States was “founded as a Slavocracy” and that racist ideology was the country’s “original sin.” The 1619 ...

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It’s a favourite among Fortune 100 companies, government agencies and regular people. More than 1.5 million people ...

In a recent episode of her podcast, Iona Italia expressed frustration about bad arguments against freedom of speech that she’s had to combat over and over again. I am therefore submitting something ...