Artist Sheng Lam is behind the satisfyingly chunky designs

Without efforts to rebuild soil health, we could lose our ability to grow enough nutritious food to feed the planet’s population

On February 10, 2002, in a New York State prison cell, the bestselling author and twice-convicted killer Jack Abbott hanged himself. That same day, the body of the man I murdered washed ashore on a Brooklyn beach. My reason for connecting these two e ...

The automobile took over because the legal system helped squeeze out the alternatives.

California’s coastline is eroding with every tide and storm, but everything built before we knew better is fixed in place with nowhere to go.

‘All he wanted was to be with us and to play with his granddaughter,’ says musician’s daughter

For four months in 2018, authorities in Texas collected more than 9.2 million messages under a single court-authorized wiretap order, newly released figures show.

Book Culture, based in the same Queens neighborhood where Amazon wanted to set up shop, says it will be forced to close if the city or state doesn’t offer assistance.

“I hope it changes. I hope I’m wrong. I’m not holding my breath.”

In what is either an incredible blockchain-enabled monetization opportunity or a sign that perhaps the gears are finally starting to fall out of this thing, Republican politician, failed presidential candidate, and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Sa ...

‘I honestly do think this technology will be better for the internet’

A recent challenge to Stephen Hawking’s biggest idea — about how the universe might have come from nothing — has cosmologists choosing sides.

No one’s making them try to read 100 books a year.

Nutella fans across the globe are scrambling to stock up as news spreads of a strike that threatens to cut a quarter of the world’s supply.

British Columbia, Canada has just passed a law that would ban sales of gas-powered cars in 30 years.

The mainstream narrative of esports has been lovingly crafted by those who benefit from its success. There’s big money in esports, they say. You’ve heard the stories. Teenaged gamers flown overseas to sunny mansions with live-in chefs. The erection o ...

A Vancouver company is bringing high-nutrient African farm foods to grocery store shelves, while aiming to improve the lives of female farmers and their families in Mali, West Africa. Food company Farafena works with about 1,000 women from nine diffe ...

When did the first complex multicellular life arise? Most people, being a bit self-centered, would point to the Ediacaran and Cambrian, when the first animal life appeared and then diversified. Yet studies of DNA suggest that fungi may have originate ...

Tiny fossils found in mudrock in the barren wilderness of the Canadian Arctic are the remains of the oldest known fungus on Earth, scientists say. The minuscule organisms were discovered in shallow water shale, a kind of fine-grained sedimentary rock ...

Airlines have increasingly settled on a boarding order driven by social stratification.