Current Events

The opening lines of Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News lay bare the culture of denial in the US.

The UAE is the first Arab nation to send a spacecraft to the Red Planet.

It’s not the caffeine; it’s the people.

Did America’s collective mental health get worse (and then better) after the first COVID-19 lockdown?

7 scholars and legal experts dissect what you can and can’t say in America.

Inventions with revolutionary potential made by a mysterious aerospace engineer for the U.S. Navy come to light.

Some mysteries take generations to unfold.

Introducing the Deep Space Food Challenge.

From making their own swabs to staying in constant communication across the board, Northwell Health dove headfirst into uncharted waters to take on the virus and save lives.

Ari Loeb, who suggested in 2018 that the mysterious object was an alien craft, is back to discuss the evidence.

New research identifies 16 different COVID-19 personality types and the lessons we can learn from this global pandemic.

The space agency describes the process of landing rovers on Mars as “seven minutes of terror.”

Lovers are parted from lovers, (grand)parents from children, families from their dead.

New research from MIT is unintuitive but could lead to a better system.

Most people believe you can win an argument with facts – but when “facts” are so often subject to doubt, are personal experiences trusted more?

Northwell Health has built an elaborate data system to track and fight COVID-19. If this system goes global, it could prevent a future pandemic.

The platform experiments with letting users decide what content needs flagging.

Inequality in wealth, gender, and race grew to unprecedented levels across the world, according to OxFam report.

There is no going “back to normal.”

A new study casts doubt on previous research showing that emotional well-being plateaus at an income of $75,000 per year.

Could we have predicted COVID-19 through social media trends?

Journalists, doctors, and others you should know.

An expert in positive psychology weighs in.

NASA is scrapping its Apollo-era launcher platform to make room for new infrastructure that will support upcoming Artemis missions.

The idea behind the law was simple: make it more difficult for online sex traffickers to find victims.

User-driven sites lead to user-based bias.

We look back at a year ravaged by a global pandemic, economic downturn, political turmoil and the ever-worsening climate crisis.

The long-term lessons America learns from the coronavirus pandemic will spell life or death.

Dr. Eric Lander is a pioneer in genomics. What role will he play in the new administration?

Debating is cognitively taxing but also important for the health of a democracy—provided it’s face-to-face.