The West Side elevated highway was a miracle: lanes snaking down the edge of Manhattan, a symbol of New Deal–era infrastructure investment in the United States’ biggest city. In 1973, it collapsed.

The University of California, Berkeley had almost 6,500 students on its wait list last year. It ended up admitting none of them. The only thing harder than getting into college, it seems, is getting ...

May will be a month of mixed emotions for the hundreds of thousands of riders who use the bi-state PATH rail system. Fares are going up on May 4, but some long-awaited service improvements, including ...

You’ve probably seen it on social media before: a paragraph of scrambled text that looks like nonsense at first glance, yet somehow you can read it with surprising ease. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at ...

Chinese scientists are moving technology that converts greenhouse gases into aviation fuel out of the laboratory and towards large-scale production. Global jet fuel prices surged to US$175 a barrel in ...

Speech-to-text capability is now baked into all modern computers. But what if you didn’t have to dictate to your computer? What if you could type just by thinking? Silicon Valley startup Sabi is ...

It’s been a wild week to be a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. On March 14, Buffy Summers herself (Sarah Michelle Gellar) took to Instagram to deliver news that felt like a stake to the heart. A ...

Around 4,000 years ago, one of the world's oldest civilizations emerged: The Indus Valley Civilization, flourishing in what is now Pakistan, western India, eastern Iran and parts of Afghanistan. In ...

Information has always been crucial for good decision-making. But some of the most valuable information inside organizations and across markets has long been trapped in dense, unstructured text: ...

If a user opened this Markdown file in Windows 11 Notepad versions 11.2510 and earlier and viewed it in Markdown mode, the above text would appear as a clickable link. If the link is clicked with ...

The Barbarian is one of the most straightforward classes in Dungeons and Dragons. While the Fighter may be more tactical and versatile, the Barbarian is the master of hitting things very hard. Though ...