THERE COMES A period of time in every beloved gadget's life—some more prolonged than others—when you need to think about replacing the electronic device that's given you so much loyal service, whether it's a smartphone, a laptop, a digital camera, or anything in between.

Alerts had been going out for weeks that conditions in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas were perfect for wildfires. On March 6, 2017, the prairie went up in flames. By Ian Frazier.

Stay up nights with the British writer as she takes on insomnia.

An MIT professor argues that misinformation boils down to one simple thing: mental laziness, exacerbated by social media.

We all have an innate ability to pick a face out of a crowd. But some can memorise thousands of people – often seen only fleetingly on CCTV. Alex Moshakis meets the ‘super recognisers’

Just as Lucas the Spider had started to lose all hope for a new friend, his bell started ringing! Who could it be?! Follow Lucas's exciting new adventure to find out!

From the New York Times: In the northern town of Paradise, the ruins of houses and businesses smoldered throughout the day, while in Southern California, tens of thousands of residents fled their homes and jammed onto highways. Exotic lemurs and parrots were packed up and carried away to safety as fires ringed the Los Angeles Zoo in Griffith Park. Officials estimated that the blaze in the north, called the Camp Fire, had destroyed a staggering 6,700 structures — most of them residential. Such vast devastation would make it the most destructive fire in modern state history.

Friday's plunge sends Yelp to a 52-week low and puts the stock on pace for its worst day of trading since going public in 2012.

US whistle-blower Edward Snowden yesterday claimed that Saudi Arabia used Israeli spyware to target murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

"We saw the American flag, and we tried to reach them, but as we approached, they seemed to avoid us," one survivor said.

One of the former attorney general’s final acts was to make it nearly impossible for federal civil rights lawyers to rein in police abuse. By Ryan J. Reilly.

As if we didn’t already have enough to worry about when it comes to artificially intelligent machines being able to perform many tasks faster and better than humans can, potentially stealing our jobs in the future, and presenting what some technologists worry is an existential threat to humanity, now it appears AI will soon be able to match humans at being, well, human, too.

The earliest known painting of an animal has been identified in a cave on the island of Borneo.

Egyptologists stumble across ramp that helps explain how huge blocks of stones were hauled into place.

Mouse studies show tiny intercellular pods convey to sperm a legacy of a father’s hard knocks in life

Found in the Amazon rainforest, this incredible arachnid looks like a strange cross between a dog and a spider.

The White House is accused of engaging in "Orwellian" tactics after banning CNN reporter.

CEO Sundar Pichai thinks the search engine should be willing to work with Chinese censors. Will employees go along with the plan?

The long read: When high doses of painkillers led to widespread addiction, it was called one of the biggest mistakes in modern medicine. But this was no accident

On the ineffable magic of four little manuscripts of Old English poetry

The bar in Thousand Oaks, California was packed with college students when the gunman opened fire.

An Oxford University study suggests worries about screen time causing a lack of sleep are overblown.

Our foldable future is here.

Controversial tests to proceed despite opposition from congress and others

Reality may get in the way of ambitions.

Over the weekend, the New York Times Magazine published a lengthy and in-depth piece on how U.S. law enforcement has willfully ignored the threat of white supremacist extremism for decades. The author, Janet Reitman, takes an ostensibly deep dive into how law enforcement — particularly federal agencies — has neglected the growth of the violent far right, in part owing to Republican political agenda setting. For a story framed around a “blind spot,” though, the piece itself is hobbled by an egregious case of sightlessness.

New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine.

La Trobe leads international clinical trial.

Mr. Sessions was the first senator to endorse Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign. But his recusal as attorney general from the Russia inquiry proved to be his undoing.

Ads that generate fake system messages are included in the ban