A look back at one of 1999’s most controversial modern classics—and how it proved to be eerily prescient about our current moment

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is now well and truly available on Nintendo Switch - and well worth playing, too - but there's even more Witcher goodness to come. That's right, you'll soon be able to play the game with an officially licensed controller (or any other game, for that matter).

Susanna Clarke, whose bestselling debut sold 4m copies, will publish her second book, Piranesi, in September 2020

The thought of dying was killing Kerry Pappas. Then the cancer patient took a trip on psilocybin – the active agent in "magic mushrooms." Ever since, she says she is perfectly comfortable with her life.

What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us.

The move is likely to lead to 2,000 delivery workers losing their jobs.

Whiskey and all, the wooden dwellings of early explorers have been restored to look as they did during the first treks to the continent in the early 1900s.

A pilot plastic street will be built downtown later this year

The new regulation comes as Beijing tightens its control on every aspect of life in China.

China's demand for "mock meat" is growing amid concerns that domestic supply won't be enough to meet demand, according to Fitch Solutions.

Misreading data visualizations can reinforce biased perceptions

Elon Musk’s tweets have gotten him into trouble. A California judge ruled Friday that the Tesla CEO and other company executives have been illegally sabotaging employee efforts to form a union. The administrative judge, Amita Tracy, pointed to 12 company actions that violated US labor laws. That includes letting security guards harass workers who were passing out union pamphlets in the parking lot, banning employees from wearing pro-union T-shirts and buttons, repeatedly interrogating union or...

With happiness harder to come by these days, people are grasping at any moment of joy they can get.

Company executives are being targeted by spoof emails requesting them to send vast sums of money.

This summer, the Yurok Tribe declared rights of personhood for the Klamath River—likely the first to do so for a river in North America. A concept previously restricted to humans (and corporations), “rights of personhood” means, most simply, that an individual or entity has rights, and they’re now being extended to nonhumans. The Yurok’s resolution, passed by the tribal council in May, comes during another difficult season for the Klamath; over the past few years, low water flows have ...

Research shows that if you expect help, you might not appreciate it

College of Charleston researcher Jon Hakkila says blasts created by gamma-ray bursts may actually exceed the speed of light in surrounding gas clouds.

Bülent Şık went to a newspaper after the government sat on a study of a cancer cluster in polluted region

And a conservation group needs the public’s help acquiring the property

The world’s oceans have long helped to stave off climate change by absorbing heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But that is changing, with devastating consequences for humanity in the coming decades, leading researchers warn in a high-level report commissioned by the United Nations.

A 10-year-old boy called the police when he believed his bus driver was drunk, telling dispatchers she passed red lights and was wobbling. The 48-year-old driver has been arrested and is being investigated for DUI and reckless endangerment.

The 178-year-old tour operator failed to secure a £200 million rescue on Sunday, leading it to suspend its flights and bookings.