The finding by the Trump administration is the strongest denunciation by any government of China’s actions and follows a Biden campaign statement with the same declaration.

SpaceX has been awarded a $150.4 million contract to launch as many as 28 satellites for the Pentagon’s space agency, the Defense Department announced Dec. 31.

My entry into the ocean plastics crisis began when our organization, SoulBuffalo, ran the first ever activist-to-industry ocean plastics summit in May of 2019. To imagine the summit, picture 165 senior leaders from Coca-Cola, Dow, Greenpeace, the American Chemistry Council, the World Bank, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and representatives of some of the world’s 15 million informal waste pickers all stuck on a boat together in the middle of the Atlantic Garbage Patch for four days.

Phil, an IT worker in the Midlands, has worked a four day week for two years. "I fit my 36 hours into those days, which works very well," he said. "The biggest bonus is being able to schedule personal chores - those 'must be done on a week-day jobs' for the Friday, so I don't have to waste precious holiday on them."

A dog laid to rest with care some 7,000 years ago, the now-fossilized bones adorned with a necklace of elk teeth. Near Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, the bodies of dogs were given proper burials by the humans who loved them.

Millions will owe an average of $5,850 in back rent and utilities next month. But the latest aid package did too little to address housing.

The nation has a president-elect. But who will play him on “Saturday Night Live” as he prepares to be sworn into office? The question is open anew after actor Jim Carrey took to Twitter Saturday to tell fans he was leaving behind the impression of Joe Biden he has offered over the course of the first six episodes of the show’s 46th season. Carrey has not appeared in sketches in “SNL’s” last two broadcasts, nor has Alec Baldwin, who has portrayed President Donald Trump for the past f...

Working time reduction has always been used as a way of distributing available work and reducing unemployment. In our era of crisis, we need to fight for a four-day week.

A re-analysis of the skeleton of a 2-year-old Neanderthal is providing some of the strongest evidence yet that Neanderthals deliberately buried their dead.

Wage inequality is getting worse, according to new data from the Social Security Administration, which shows a steady trickle-up effect in worker income during every period for the last four decades. That’s happening as wages for the bottom 90% of earners are being “continuously redistributed upward” to the top 10% and often even further to the top 1% and 0.1%, reports the Economic Policy Institute, which analyzed the data. Since the year 1979, while wages for the bottom 90% saw a modest g...

Video game companies like Sony and Microsoft spend years planning their next-generation machines. The moment one machine is out the door, they're sketching out what the next one will look like, even if it won't ship for another decade. Sony's big plans for PlayStation 5 were in motion long before the hardware showed up at people's doors, and that included its ambitious ideas for the PS5 interface, such as the "activities" that I wrote about last week, where people c...

Exploring the comment-section emotion of music as served by a mysterious algorithm.

Sheep are one of the most unfairly stereotyped animals on the planet. Almost everything we believe about them is wrong

A North Korean crew appears to be trapped aboard a fishing ship that has been stranded on a Russian beach ever since a destructive typhoon ripped through the area more than two months ago.

How personal productivity transformed work—and failed to.

The phone numbers add tracking before connecting to a restaurant so that Grubhub can bill for a marketing fee.

In some parts of the city, rents have dropped since the COVID-19 crisis began. But for neighborhoods that felt the effects of the coronavirus most, listed prices have risen slightly, according to a new analysis. The annual rental report by the apartment-listings site StreetEasy paints a very different price picture between the neighborhoods with the lowest coronavirus infection rates — primarily wealthier neighborhoods in Manhattan and Brooklyn — and the hardest-hit areas, mostly in Queens a...

A tiny tribe of passionate collectors have dedicated themselves to preserving early musical recordings on wax cylinders.

If you were waiting for Wentworth Miller to reprise his role as Michael for a revival of the Fox series Prison Break, you’ll be waiting a long time.