State media say the projectile plunged into the sea, after briefly sparking emergency warnings in South Korea and Japan North Korea’s first spy satellite launch has ended in failure after its [...]
Hundreds of tech leaders call for world to treat AI as danger on par with pandemics and nuclear warA group of leading technology experts from across the world have warned that artificial intelligence [...]
Rare strike on Russian capital unnerves Muscovites who had been told conflict would not threaten themRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesMoscow has been targeted with a large-scale drone attack [...]
Blood-testing firm’s fraud saga sees its end as 39-year-old tech founder reports to federal prison camp‘People wanted to believe the fairytale’: the downfall of Elizabeth HolmesThe Theranos [...]
House speaker says he isn’t worried the agreement will fail as prominent rightwinger Chip Roy calls it a ‘turd sandwich’The Republican speaker of the US House, Kevin McCarthy, insisted on [...]
The incident is the latest in a season of heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing this yearA Chinese fighter pilot performed an “unnecessarily aggressive maneuver” near an American [...]
Former Senate staffer who made claim in 2020 appears on Russian media alongside convicted Russian agent in US Maria ButinaTara Reade, a former Senate staffer who in 2020 accused Joe Biden of sexual [...]
Court reverses earlier decision by Governor Gavin Newsom not to free woman convicted of killings of Leno and Rosemary LaBiancaA California appeals court said on Tuesday that Leslie Van Houten, who [...]
Governor makes remark to Fox News and predicts two White House terms should he defeat Trump for Republican nominationPredicting two terms in the White House should he defeat Donald Trump for the [...]
AFL great reflects on impact of Stolen Generations on his mother‘It just breaks my heart,’ says Sydney Swans premiership playerSydney Swans great Adam Goodes says the only regret in his life is [...]
The Hebrew-language edition of Abigail Shrier's book, decried as 'transphobic propaganda,' has been slammed for importing a U.S. conservative culture war.
The post ‘Murderous bigotry’: [...]
The Israeli right has co-opted Rabin's slogan 'without a High Court and B'Tselem' to undermine those institutions — but for a different purpose.
The post With NGO assault, Israel drops its fig leaf [...]
From terror threat to peace hopes, Israeli views of the Palestinian flag have undergone many shifts over the decades. Now, attempts to outlaw it are back.
The post The long history of Israel’s [...]
Archeologists criticized the participation of two Ariel University scholars at the international event, citing illegality of excavations on occupied territory.
The post After backlash, conference [...]
By failing to push back on problematic definitions of antisemitism, the White House is missing a golden opportunity in the fight against hate.
The post Biden’s antisemitism strategy gets a lot [...]
Twenty-seven Palestinian families made the devastating decision to leave their homes in 'Ein Samia, hounded out by Israeli settlers and army pressure.
The post Under settler terror, Palestinians tear [...]
Left-wing high schoolers describe how the anti-government protests have provided a window for the mainstreaming of views long deemed illegitimate.
The post These Israeli youth are burning their [...]
An accord between Riyadh and Tehran could stymie regional polarization and normalization with Israel. Will Palestinian leaders take advantage of it?
The post What will Saudi-Iran rapprochement mean [...]
The collapse of any logic in Israel's Gaza policy has become accepted without a shred of discomfort, rendering the yearly bloodletting an act of fate.
The post A ritual of violence that Israelis have [...]
Cancelling an event with Ben Gvir does not make up for a history of European interests that give Israel the green light to carry on with its illegal policies.
The post Avoiding an Israeli fascist [...]
“In the criminal justice system,” the evergreen Law & Order‘s opening credits remind us, “the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important, groups: the police, who [...]
French is known as the language of romance, a reputation that, whatever cultural support it enjoys, would be difficult to defend on purely linguistic grounds. But it wouldn’t be [...]
Today, it hardly surprises us when a successful, wealthy, and influential rock star has a large art collection. But David Bowie, ahead of the culture even at the outset of his career, began [...]
Living green walls and upcycled building materials are welcome environmentally-conscious design trends, but when it comes to sustainable architecture, the living root bridges made by [...]
Back in 1982, the PBS American Playhouse series aired Jonathan Demme’s made-for-TV film based on the Kurt Vonnegut story, “Who Am I This Time?” Now, thanks to the YouTube channel [...]
The Greek term ekphrasis sounds rather exotic if you seldom come across it, but it refers to an act in which we’ve all engaged at one time or another: that is, describing a work of art. [...]
This spring, Google has launched several online certificate programs designed to help students land an entry-level job, without necessarily having a college degree. The tech [...]
Note: The great Tina Turner passed away today at her home in Switzerland. She was 83. From our archive, we’re bringing back an electric 1971 performance, a reminder of what made her [...]
Helen Keller achieved notoriety not only as an individual success story, but also as a prolific essayist, activist, and fierce advocate for poor and marginalized people. She “was a lifelong [...]
Henry James, perhaps the most famous American expatriate novelist of the nineteenth century, won a great deal of his fame with The Portrait of a Lady. John Singer Sargent, perhaps the most [...]
Charles Perrault is celebrated as the collector of some of the world’s best-known fairy tales. But his brothers were just as remarkable: Claude, an architect of the Louvre, and Pierre, who [...]
Those who sipped or sniffed ether and chloroform in the 19th century experienced a range of effects from these repurposed anaesthetics, including preternatural mental clarity, psychological [...]
Taking a child on a tour through punctuation, Mr. Stops introduces him to a cast of literal “characters”: admiring exclamation marks and militaristic [...]
In these images, Vérany realizes his ambition — to accurately render “the suppleness of the flesh, the grace of the contours, the transparency and the coloring” of cephalopods. [...]
Fiction
“Nights of Plague,” Orhan Pamuk
Like many other people during the pandemic, I searched for books that could help me understand the impact of a mass disease outbreak on society. Above [...]
Henry Kissinger, former secretary of state, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., on Feb. 6, 2023.
Photo: David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty [...]
A woman rests next to anti-abortion posters in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, in Washington, D.C.
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“Once a fetal heartbeat could be detected, typically around [...]
The vast majority of wetlands in the United States — more than 100 million acres — are no longer protected by the Clean Water Act, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday in Sackett v. EPA. Wetlands [...]
The U.S. government is frustrated that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is prioritizing social spending for the benefit of his people over addressing matters that are important to the [...]
Progressive Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow are outspoken critics of the bloated defense budget and the MAGA wing of the Republican Party. Next month, though, both Raskin and [...]
Ever since Congress created a federal debt limit, it has managed to raise it before U.S. borrowing reached the limit. For the first time, it looks as though that may not happen, and the [...]
In March, two former Ohio Republican Party leaders were convicted on racketeering and bribery charges in a scheme that federal prosecutors described as the state’s largest-ever corruption case. In [...]
An Intercept investigation, years in the making, reveals previously unpublished, unreported, and underappreciated evidence of hundreds of civilian casualties that were kept secret during [...]
Whether Israel’s escalating threats of war with Iran over its nuclear program are saber-rattling or something more serious is a mystery even to the CIA, according to a portion of a top-secret [...]
Tens of thousands of tech workers have been laid off by companies recently, including at Amazon, Dropbox, GitHub, Google, Microsoft, and Vimeo. Startups, too, have made cuts, according to [...]
I love plants. I am not great with plants. I have accepted this fact and have therefore entrusted the lives of all of the plants in my care to robots. These aren’t fancy robots: They’re [...]
For more than a century, utility companies have used electromechanical relays to protect power systems against damage that might occur during severe weather, accidents, and other abnormal [...]
As I read the newest papers about
DNA-based computing, I had to confront a rather unpleasant truth. Despite being a geneticist who also majored in computer science, I was struggling to bridge [...]
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few [...]
Calling all robot fanatics! We are the creators of the Robots Guide, IEEE’s interactive site about robotics, and we need your help.
Today, we’re expanding our massive catalog to nearly 250 [...]
The most advanced manufacturers of computer processors are in the middle of the first big change in device architecture in a decade—the shift from finFETs to nanosheets. Another 10 years should [...]
There was a time, decades really, when all it took to make a better computer chip were smaller transistors and narrower interconnects. That time’s long gone now, and although transistors will [...]
Stephen Cass: Welcome to Fixing the Future, an IEEE Spectrum podcast. This episode is brought to you by IEEE Xplore, the digital library with over 6 million technical documents and free search. [...]
First-year college students are understandably frustrated when they can’t get into popular upper-level electives. But they usually just gripe. Paras Jha was an exception. Enraged that [...]
Anyons, anyone?
Scientists have created strange new particle-like objects called non-abelian anyons. These long-sought quasiparticles can be “braided,” meaning that they can be moved [...]
While volunteering at the University of New Mexico’s Children’s Hospital in Albuquerque, Quinton Smith quickly realized that he could never be a physician.
Then an undergrad at the [...]
If you ever come across a Cooper’s black orchid in the wild, you probably would mistake it for a stick — or perhaps an odd potato if you dig a little underneath it. Unlike many others of its [...]
It’s hard to know how busy this year’s Atlantic hurricane season will be, thanks to a rarely observed combination of ocean and climate conditions.
The Atlantic Ocean is in an active storm [...]
Planetary scientists now know how thick the Martian crust is, thanks to the strongest Marsquake ever observed.
On average, the crust is between 42 and 56 kilometers thick, researchers report [...]
Meet the house that diapers built.
Researchers have designed and erected a house that has shredded, disposable diapers mixed into its concrete and mortar. A single-story home of about 36 [...]
Giardia has plagued people for a long time.
The parasite can bring about dysentery — a miserable (and occasionally deadly) mixture of diarrhea, cramps and fever. Scientists have now [...]
Microbial stress can be a boon for young trees.
Saplings grown in soil microbes that have experienced drought, cold or heat are more likely to survive when faced with those same conditions, [...]
More than 5,000 animal species previously unknown to science live in a pristine part of the deep sea.
Their home — called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone — sits in the central and eastern [...]
Beer breweries’ trash may have been Danish painters’ treasure.
The base layer of several paintings created in Denmark in the mid-1800s contains remnants of cereal grains and brewer’s [...]
Enlarge / On May 22, John Timmer (left) moderated a panel featuring Karin Bok (center) and Nathaniel Wang (right) for the Ars Frontiers 2023 session titled, "Beyond COVID: What Does mRNA [...]
Enlarge / A colorful, textured bi-layer film made from plant-based materials cools down when it’s in the sun. (credit: Qingchen Shen)
Summer is almost here, bringing higher [...]
Enlarge / Inside the Steve Jobs Theater building at Apple's headquarters. (credit: Samuel Axon)
Apple's 2023 Worldwide Developer Conference is just a few days away—it kicks off [...]
Enlarge / Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos Inc., center, arrives at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Bryan, Texas, US, on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) [...]
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A lawyer is in trouble after admitting he used ChatGPT to help write court filings that cited six nonexistent cases invented by the [...]
Enlarge / Ziggy is a battery-powered EV charger on wheels that can come visit individual parking spaces to recharge EVs where they park. (credit: EV Safe Charge)
There are a few [...]
Enlarge / The Microsoft Surface Pro X. (credit: Jeff Dunn)
Microsoft has issued a workaround for broken Surface Pro X cameras following user reports that the integrated webcams [...]
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of "AI taking over the world." (credit: Stable Diffusion)
On Tuesday, the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) released a single-sentence statement signed [...]
Enlarge / The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters stands in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, March 14, 2020. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg)
The tally of [...]
Lake George, N.Y. makes an unusual claim to fame: it touts itself as the America’s original vacation spot.
The basis of that claim? In 1869 a Boston preacher named William H.H. Murray [...]
Household roles have changed a lot since LIFE’s original run as a magazine, from 1936 to 1972. In April 2023 the Pew Research Center released a study which showed that in an increasing number [...]
Little Rock Central High School lives in American history as one of the landmark battlegrounds of the civil rights movement. President Dwight D. Eisenhower called in the national guard after the [...]
The following is from LIFE’s beautifully illustrated new special edition, Birds: The World’s Most Remarkable Creatures, available at newsstands and online:
The first bird I fell [...]
Wilt Chamberlain lived large in every sense of the term. As an NBA star he scored a record 100 points in a game, and he was a multiple-time champion and MVP. Off the court he shocked people with the [...]
As protests go, no one would mistake this one for the March on Washington, the marches in Selma, the marches for gay rights march, the labor strikes led by Cesar Chavez, or any of the other [...]
Wangyingzhi Janny Ji is an award-winning designer with a varied creative background. Her work has been recognised by the Art Directors Club, the Type Directors Club, Graphis, Adobe, STA 100, [...]
If you could list some of the innumerable objects multimedia artist Sarah Sze uses in the site-specific installations in Timelapse, it would be a myriad of items that do not seemingly belong [...]
“I still hesitate when anyone asks me where I’m from, no doubt a question owing to my unusual accent,” writes Brighton-based Ian Howorth. The photographer, who was born in Peru, spent time in [...]
Helen Blejerman is a Mexican artist based in the UK. She uses her practice to explore “the spiritual aspect of people in the context of violence, in particular the context of femicide. My [...]
In a series of black and white images shot on 35mm film, Paddy Summerfield (b. 1947) documents his mother’s Alzheimer’s and his father’s dedication to caring for her. The photobook, titled [...]
“When a new direction in art appears, it always seems strange at first.” – Julius Voegtli (1879-1944). When the first Impressionist exhibition launched in 1874, it was met with [...]
Alchemy emerged after the eighth century with the aim of transforming metal into gold. The protoscientific idea originated and developed in various strands, including ancient China, countries in [...]
The V&A, London, has collected and exhibited photography since it was founded in the 1850s. On 25 May 2023, the final phase of its Photography Centre will open – the largest galleries in the [...]
London Gallery Weekend (LGW) originated at the grassroots level during the pandemic. Now, it takes place the 2 – 4 June and unites over 80 galleries across the capital. This year’s event [...]
Tom Wood (b. 1951) is affectionately known as the “Photie Man” across Merseyside. The Irish-born artist has certainly earned this title; it’s the result of 50 years dedicated to photographing [...]
Debbie Millman has an ongoing project at PRINT titled “What Matters.” This is an effort to understand the interior life of artists, designers, and creative thinkers. This facet of the project is [...]
Before one leaves the physical world for the astral realm, it would be prudent to specify the typeface that you want to have represent you for eternity (Paul Rand made certain of that). That is the [...]
I’m taking today off to watch the flowers bloom. And so should you. There’s too much stress in our lives. The government should enact more national holidays devoted to detox.
But [...]
My maternal grandfather was a taciturn man, and such a dead ringer for James Joyce in his later years that people used to stop him on the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn and ask for his [...]
We’re massive fans of The Working Assembly here at PRINT, a New York creative agency that champions small, women-founded, and BIPOC-led businesses. Helmed by founder and Head of Creative Jolene [...]
It is always a mystery to the outsider why some films have well-designed title sequences and others do not. Money—or the lack of it—is a common excuse. But almost all motion pictures do have [...]
Have you ever stopped to ponder the sheer weight of your existence? The vastness of your humanity? The enormity of your lived experience? Creative director, designer, animator, and founder of the [...]
I put oat milk on my morning cereal nowadays.
That’s a sentence I never thought I’d write.
But, it’s true.
How did this happen?
I enjoy a bowl of cereal in the morning. My [...]
The last issue of BANG! (No. 3) was published in 2019. Ring any bells? Can you think of why that year might have been its death knell?
The dreaded virus that immediately followed dashed a lot of [...]
For a designer, learning to set metal and wood type is as essential as learning to drive a car (stick or automatic). One of the most passionate teachers of the craft, Dikko Faust, co-founder with [...]
