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There’s plenty to be excited about in 2026: the year’s blockbuster exhibitions include a Sophie Calle survey at Louisiana and Edward Enninful’s curation of the 90s
Co-directed by Joiri and Xenia Matthews, the film follows the artist through the creation of a performance series and installation in North America's oldest surviving botanical garden.
Christie’s auctions off a painting by Jimmy Carter, Trump sells a painting of Jesus, King Charles hands out honors, and more.
What if the problem for young boys isn’t radical influencers, but the absence that made them persuasive? Influence doesn’t emerge because someone is loud or offensive; it takes root when there’s no on...
Stoicism has been flattened into slogans about toughness, detachment, and emotional silence, a version that’s easy to sell, but mostly wrong. Massimo Pigliucci returns Stoicism to its original p...
A 2016 astronaut photo of the Bahamas shows a series of luminous, rippling sandbanks partly carved out by a coral reef. The image also reveals subtle differences in the ocean's surface caused by a ste...
A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our searc...
Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, when temperatures were close to what we're predicted to reach by the end of...
Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France's most prestigious prizes, yet she declined to attend the award ceremony because the committee members didn't respect he...
The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar flares, including a hidden X-class outburst, a new paper reveals. The study sets...
China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion milestone and potentially bringing humanity closer to wielding near-limitless clean...
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) announced that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) had agreed to hang a plaque honoring the officers who protected the U.S. Capitol during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.Speakin...
Vice President JD Vance ignited a political firestorm late Wednesday after declaring that the woman shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis suffered a “tragedy of her own making,” a claim criti...
President Donald Trump's White House architects revealed that a lavish ballroom being constructed may also require adding a story to the building's main West Wing."I did mention the potential for a fu...
Donald Trump is barely into the new year and already running headfirst into resistance from House Republicans after unleashing a barrage of policy demands that many in his own party have no interest i...
Masked ICE agents were drawing closer to protesters in Minneapolis on Thursday, firing tear gas on the crowd gathering in response to the fatal shooting of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good. CNN's ...
Brandon Phillips, a congressional aide to Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), was accused of punching a man in the face. Collins and Phillips were both facing a House ethics investigation for unrelated controve...
Gamblers and critics erupted Wednesday after Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt abruptly ended a White House briefing just seconds before the 65-minute mark — a razor-thin cutoff that torpedoed near-cer...
Democratic lawmakers plan to introduce legislation to reform Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old mom in Minneapolis — and some are discussing an effort to...
A CNN reporter sprinted away from ICE officers who chased Minneapolis protesters outside a federal facility on Thursday as the community responded to the fatal shooting of 37-year-old mother Renee Nic...