In race to build AI, tech plans a big plumbing upgrade
Microsoft, Meta, and Google's parent company, Alphabet, disclosed this week that they had spent more than $32 billion combined on data centers and...
In coral fossils, searching for glow of bioluminescence
How long organisms have been able to emit light is at the center of recent research by Dr. Quattrini and colleagues.
A dangerous game is under way in Asia
Washington’s pursuit of an increasingly complex lattice of security ties in the Asia-Pacific region is a risky business. The new alliance structure is...
Protests at Columbia are not justice
I thought about what would have happened if protesters were instead chanting anti-Black slogans, or even something like D.E.I. has got to die, to the...
William Shakespeare was born here. Or was he?
About 250 years after its break from the Catholic Church, England had its own Bethlehem and manger. The problem: No one really knows where Shakespeare...
A cultural revolution: Marjane Satrapi opens up on resistance in Iran
Women took to the streets and tore off their veils in what became known as the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, one of the most significant cultural and...
Threat of contagion: Fallout of bird flu infecting marine mammals
H5N1, an avian flu virus, has killed tens of thousands of marine mammals, and infiltrated American livestock for the first time. Scientists are...
The far right: Meloni leads the way to an EU takeover
In an incendiary speech, she spoke of a Europe under siege from many foreign powers and Islamist organizations profiting from anarchic immigration in...