In the Cairo Museum sits a strange object carved from schist stone — a 5,000-year-old artifact that resembles nothing else from its time. Called the Schist Disk, it’s so precisely made that engineers ...

Silicon Valley is filled with all sorts of dreams. But one of those wild-eyed ideas, long debated on subreddits and in hacker houses, is becoming a real-life nightmare: Will the AI boom be the last ...

In the gritty underbelly of crisscrossing highways, Tacoma’s coffee pot-shaped dive bar has lost its color — temporarily — as the owner, just a few years into his stewardship of the century-old icon, ...

How do you find a galaxy that never formed? The standard cosmological model predicts the existence of “failed” galaxies — clumps of dark matter that captured gas but never birthed a star. Because they ...

We are entering peak flu season, and a new variant known as subclade k is spreading quickly across the country, driving a sharp rise in illness and hospitalizations. Public health officials say this ...

Data this week showed that the American economy is growing at its fastest pace in two years — and yet polling shows the mood on Main Street is grim. It’s almost hard to believe we’re talking about the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As a child, Clara Spars, who grew up in Charles M. Schulz’s adoptive hometown of Santa Rosa, assumed that every ...

Bowen Yang is shedding some light on his surprising exit from "Saturday Night Live." The comedian shocked many viewers when news of his sudden departure spread on Dec. 19, a day before his final ...

South Korean authorities are making an increasingly frantic effort to stop the won currency sliding to lows not seen since early 2009 during the depths of the global financial crisis. To support the ...

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The Saturday Night Live cast will look different come 2026 as veteran comedian Bowen Yang will reportedly be departing after the final episode of the calendar year. Yang, who has been on the sketch ...

Rocket Lab's latest deal, worth a potential $805 million, is larger than the company's trailing 12-month revenue. Similarly, it nearly equals the company's existing backlog of $1.1 billion. Most ...