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Jul 25, 2022

Fed Prepares Another Rate Increase as Wall Street Wonders What’s Next

Central bankers around the world have been picking up the pace of rate increases. Now the big question looms: When will they slow down?
Dec 28, 2021

Time Capsule in Virginia Yields a Trove of Memorabilia, but No Prized Picture

Historians had hoped to find a rare, century-old photo of Abraham Lincoln in a box discovered beneath a pedestal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. It was not to be.
Aug 13, 2021

A Madonna Who Shows the Beauty in Going Overboard

There’s a certain kind of skeptic who’ll tell you that culture used to be so much more balanced. The old masters believed in accuracy, harmony; then, in the 20th century, it all went wrong. In the old days, they had standards!
Jul 11, 2021

Four Secrets About ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’

As Steven Spielberg’s classic adventure celebrates its 40th anniversary, here are behind-the-scenes stories of dizzy rats, raucous boulders and friendly flies.
Apr 21, 2021

There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing

The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.
Dec 03, 2011

Derek Boogaard: A Boy Learns to Brawl

This three-part series and video examined the life of one of hockey’s most feared fighters, Derek Boogaard, who was exposed to repeated head trauma and brought down by deadly drug addiction. Finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2012.
Apr 04, 2013

Chasing the Higgs

Two armies of physicists struggle to close in on the Higgs boson, the Great White Whale of modern science. This was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2014.
Apr 28, 2022

They’re All Good Dogs, and It Has Nothing to Do With Their Breed

Retrievers that don’t retrieve and Papillons that point are all possible because the genes that shape dog behavior predate modern breeding that focuses on appearance, researchers find.
Apr 29, 2022

The ‘Ultimate Bird’ Once Prowled the Seas of a Young Japan

Researchers described Annakacygna, a family of flightless ancient swans that were filter-feeders.

Apr 30, 2022

Can Elon Musk Make Twitter’s Numbers Work?

Financially speaking, the billionaire’s buyout of the social media network breaks all the usual rules.
Apr 28, 2022

9 New Books We Recommend This Week

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Apr 30, 2022

Looking Inward, and Back, at a Biennale for the History Books

Eyes are the key metaphor in the Venice Biennale’s central show of 213 artists, an unprecedented percentage of whom are women.
Apr 18, 2022

She Set Marathon Records in Her Sixties. Then Came the Fans.

In 2019, Mariko Yugeta became the first woman older than 60 to finish a marathon in less than three hours. She’s just getting started.
Apr 28, 2022

How Women’s Sports Teams Got Their Start

As the 50th anniversary of Title IX arrives in June, historians are reflecting on the legacy of women’s sports teams and whether it’s time to stop segregating some sports by sex.

Apr 27, 2022

Which Animal Viruses Could Infect People? Computers Are Racing to Find Out.

Machine learning is known for its ability to spot fraudulent credit charges or recognize faces. Now researchers are siccing the technology on viruses.
Apr 26, 2022

Can Virtual Reality Help Ease Chronic Pain?

V.R. treatments may provide relief similar to intravenous opioids — a tantalizing prospect for the millions of Americans living with chronic pain.
Apr 28, 2022

Climate Change Will Accelerate Viral Spillovers, Study Finds

In a warming world, bats in Southeast Asia will be especially prone to spreading viruses to other mammals, researchers found.
Apr 07, 2022

‘Big John,’ a High-Profile Triceratops, Locked Horns With Its Own Kind, Study Suggests

A team of Italian scientists describe what they believe is a gaping scar from one of these ancient battles on the neck frill of the Triceratops.
Dec 05, 2018

9-Year-Old Boy Helps Repeal Snowball Throwing Ban in Colorado Town

Dane Best, 9, a student at Range View Elementary school in Severance, Colo., threw a snowball in the Town Hall parking lot on Monday.
Feb 20, 2019

Overlooked No More: Dorothy Bolden, Who Started a Movement for Domestic Workers

Dorothy Bolden circa the 1970s, when she led the National Domestic Workers Union of America. “When she saw something that wasn’t fair, or just, or right, she would say something,” Representative John Lewis of Georgia said.
Mar 20, 2019

What’s Wrong With This Diorama? You Can Read All About It

This diorama at the American Museum of Natural History was amended in a way that allows museumgoers to see the historical inaccuracies it perpetuates.
Apr 07, 2019

In San Francisco, Making a Living From Your Billionaire Neighbor’s Trash

SAN FRANCISCO — Three blocks from Mark Zuckerberg’s $10 million Tudor home in San Francisco, Jake Orta lives in a small, single-window studio apartment filled with trash.
May 14, 2019

Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History. Now They’re Getting Their Due.

It’s been 150 years since two railroads were joined together to form the first Transcontinental Railroad. At a ceremony in Utah, Chinese railroad workers were recognized for the pivotal role they played in its construction.
Mar 08, 2019

Anne Frank’s Stepsister Meets Teenagers From Swastika Photo

Eva Schloss, who was 16 when she was freed from Auschwitz, spoke Thursday with Southern California high school students who made Nazi salutes at a party.
Apr 07, 2019

With Indigenous Languages in Steep Decline, Summer Camps Offer Hope

In July, about 20 7- and 8-year-olds will gather at a summer camp in the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, in Northern California. They will sing songs, put on puppet shows and play games.
Apr 12, 2019

LeBron James Opened a School That Was Considered an Experiment. It’s Showing Promise.

The inaugural class of third and fourth graders at the school has posted extraordinary results on its first set of test scores.

Apr 27, 2019

Lego Is Making Braille Bricks. They May Give Blind Literacy a Needed Lift.

The Lego bricks will feature both Braille dots and written letters, allowing blind and sighted children to play together.Credit...
Apr 13, 2019

Cursive Seemed to Go the Way of Quills and Parchment. Now It’s Coming Back.

While cursive has been relegated to nearly extinct tasks like writing thank-you cards and signing checks, rumors of its death may be exaggerated.
Nov 01, 2018

How ‘Makers’ Make the Classroom More Inclusive

The maker movement started out flashy, bringing 3-D printers into classrooms around the world. Now, it’s about meeting student and community needs.

Nov 05, 2018

Why the Wilder Storms? It’s a ‘Loaded Dice’ Problem

Torrential rainfall lashed Japan in July. A cloudburst in August submerged entire villages in south India. In September, Hurricane Florence burst dams and lagoons, with coal ash and pig waste spilling into the waterways of North Carolina.
Nov 16, 2018

The Kilogram Is Dead. Long Live the Kilogram!

After a vote (and a century of research), the standard measure for mass is redefined, and the long reign of Le Grand K is ended.

Feb 05, 2019

The Hummingbird as Warrior: Evolution of a Fierce and Furious Beak

Winsomely captured in poems and song, the birds are yielding new secrets about their astounding beaks and penchant for violence.

Feb 12, 2019

In China, This Video Game Lets You Be a Tiger Mom or a Driven Dad

Mete out love and discipline. Set ambitious goals. Endure a teenager’s first dates. Fans say the game Chinese Parents is a surprisingly poignant exercise in role reversal.
Mar 14, 2019

Did Dietary Changes Bring Us ‘F’ Words? Study Tackles Complexities of Language’s Origins

Softer foods from agricultural lifestyles may have changed the human bite, making it easier to form certain sounds.
Apr 23, 2019

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From parasitic wasps to shark look-alikes, states have honored many distinctive creatures. Often, students were the driving force.
Apr 06, 2019

A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy

The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat: drug-resistant germs.
Sep 11, 2018

These 3 Hurricane Misconceptions Can Be Dangerous. Scientists Want to Clear Them Up.

They warn. They plead. They scold and cajole. Forecasters and public officials will try just about anything to get residents to flee coastlines ahead of a hurricane.
Nov 28, 2018

Are Civics Lessons a Constitutional Right? This Student Is Suing for Them

Many see the lack of civics in schools as a national crisis. A federal lawsuit says it also violates the law.
Apr 27, 2019

Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers

As the birthrate plummets in South Korea, rural schools are emptying. To fill its classrooms, one school opened its doors to women who have for decades dreamed of learning to read.

Jan 01, 1970

You’ve Conquered the Escape Room. But Can You Escape the Lab?

A physicist at the University of Illinois devised an immersive game in which teams solve science puzzles to unlock a mystery — before it’s too late.

May 10, 2019

The School Photo Industry Is a Master Class in Drama

Say cheese, boys, and girls! Or say big money, lawsuits, lice panics and monstrous little pyromaniacs.
Nov 08, 2018

For Autistic Boys, the Subway Is Actually Soothing

It’s loud, it’s crowded, it’s delayed because of an earlier incident. But to the minds of boys along the spectrum, it may be a paradise.

Dec 18, 2018

A visual journey through addiction

Why do people start taking opioids and why can't they stop? Through interviews with users and experts, The New York Times created a visual representation of how these drugs can hijack the brain.

Oct 30, 2018

Disgust vs. Delight: Why Do Certain Foods Turn You Off?

“I want people to question what they find disgusting,” said the lead curator and chief financier of the Disgusting Food Museum, a touring pop-up exhibition in Malmo, Sweden.

Mar 14, 2019

How Big Tobacco Hooked Children on Sugary Drinks

Researchers combing through archives discovered that cigarette makers had applied their marketing wizardry to sweetened beverages and turned generations of children into loyal customers.

Mar 08, 2019

U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Sues U.S. Soccer for Gender Discrimination

Twenty-eight members of the world champion United States women’s soccer team significantly escalated their long-running fight with the country’s soccer federation over pay equity and working conditions, filing a gender discrimination lawsuit on Friday.
Jan 31, 2019

Jackie Robinson Showed Me How to Fight On, Not Fight Back

As an African-American woman who has written about baseball for decades, the question I am most asked about my career choice is: “Why?”
Dec 28, 2018

‘I Feel Invisible’: Native Students Languish in Public Schools

At Wolf Point High School in rural Montana, Native American students face the same neglect Native students across the U.S. do as they navigate a school system that has failed American Indians.
Feb 27, 2019

Chinese Girl Finds a Way Out of Tedious Homework: Make a Robot Do It

HONG KONG — Some would say she cheated. Others would say she found an efficient way to finish her tedious assignment and ought to be applauded for her initiative.
Nov 01, 2018

How ‘Makers’ Make the Classroom More Inclusive

The maker movement started out flashy, bringing 3-D printers into classrooms around the world. Now, it’s about meeting student and community needs.
Nov 30, 2018

Are Civics Lessons a Constitutional Right? These Students Are Suing for Them

Aleita Cook, 17, has never taken a class in government, civics or economics. In the two social studies classes she took in her four years at a technical high school in Providence, R.I. — one in American history, the other in world history — she learned mostly about wars, she said.
Sep 17, 2018

Rethinking What Gifted Education Means, and Whom It Should Serve

Have you ever attended a school where students were grouped by ability levels or academic performance? Do you attend a school now where students are tracked?
Mar 07, 2019

Tyrannosaurus Rex: The Once and Future King

Were you fascinated by dinosaurs when you were younger? Are you still fascinated? Do you have a favorite dinosaur?
Mar 19, 2019

Mercury Is in Retrograde. Don’t Be Alarmed.

Did you know that Mercury is in retrograde? From March 5 to March 28, as it typically does three times a year, Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, appears to move backward across the sky — from east to west rather than from west to east. Have you seen any negative effects in your life? Have you been more cautious about your actions? Or do you think fear or caution, based on astrological events, is nonsense?
Mar 23, 2019

Under the Influence of a ‘Super Bloom’

“At the beginning of the year, if you told me this is what we were going to be dealing with, I would have called you crazy,” said Steve Manos, the mayor of Lake Elsinore, a small town in Southern California. He was taking a brief reprieve from dealing with the biggest crisis of his short term in office yet: an explosion of picture-perfect California poppies in the Temescal Mountains, just northwest of the center of town.
Oct 21, 2018

Ice Surveys and Neckties at Dinner: Here’s Life at an Arctic Outpost

For the past 40 years, thanks to satellite measurements, scientists have known that sea ice coverage in the Arctic is shrinking. Global warming has reduced the extent of ice in the region in summer, when it is at its lowest, by nearly 13 percent a decade. That has led some researchers to predict that the Arctic could be ice-free in summers by the middle of the century.
Oct 03, 2019

3-D Printed Implant Gives Patches the Dachshund a New Skull

Last year, Patches the dachshund earned the nickname Little Unicorn after she developed a large tumor that jutted out of her forehead.
Mar 27, 2019

This Water Drop, It’s the Greatest Dancer

Try out a mini experiment testing the way water reacts to different types of surfaces. First, gather a few surfaces with varying textures — rough, smooth, grainy, oily, soft, hard or bumpy. You might use a desktop, a sheet of textured paper, an aluminum can or pavement.
Sep 27, 2018

Biased News Media or Biased Readers? An Experiment on Trust

Where do you generally get your news — from television, social media, newspapers, radio, videos, websites, podcasts, apps, word of mouth? How reliable do you think this content is? Why?
Apr 25, 2019

A Bitter Finish for Slow Runners: Get on the Bus

You are playing Fortnite all afternoon. You’re really killing it, and after a few close calls and a little luck, you’ve reached the final two teams. Suddenly there’s a knock at the door: It’s your parents. You have to stop playing and come to dinner!
Mar 04, 2019

“Mockingbird” Producer Reconsiders, Letting Local Plays Go Forward

Have you read Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”? Have you ever watched a movie or play version of the novel? If so, what are your thoughts?
Jan 09, 2019

I Feel Invisible”: Native Students Languish in Public Schools

Do you feel your school meets your needs? Do you feel you are known and supported at your school? Do you feel that who you are — your identity, culture, community — is respected and valued? Does your school care if you succeed or fail?
Nov 28, 2018

This Is the Way the Paper Crumples

Try a mini-experiment. Take a sheet of paper, any shape or size, and crumple it. Unfold it and describe what you see. (If you don’t have a piece of paper on hand, watch this video.)
Dec 17, 2018

How to Be More Resilient

What do you know about the idea of resilience? What are some examples from your own life or events you have witnessed that show a person about to rebound — quickly or not so quickly — from disappointment?
Apr 10, 2018

The Confidence Gap for Girls: 5 Tips for Parents of Tween and Teen Girls

According to this article, “between the ages of 8 and 14, girls’ confidence levels fall by 30 percent.” In your experience — whether as a girl yourself, or as someone who has classmates, friends and relatives who are girls — do you agree?
Sep 21, 2018

Horseback Wrestling. Bone Tossing. Dead Goat Polo. Let the Nomad Games Begin!

CHOLPON-ATA, Kyrgyzstan — The American team that played a brutal version of polo at the World Nomad Games does not expect the sport to get picked up by the Olympics any time soon.
Apr 04, 2019

How the Trump Era Is Molding the Next Generation of Voters

How much do you know about the two major political parties — the Democrats and Republicans? Do you identify with either? Do you believe your personal political beliefs to be the same as those of your friends, peers and family?
Feb 02, 2019

Meet the Creator of the Egg That Broke Instagram

Do you ever like posts on social media? What kind of posts inspire you to like them? Perhaps you’ll be surprised to learn that as of today, the most-liked post in the history
Sep 24, 2018

These Robots Run, Dance and Flip. But Are They a Business?

Would you want to own one of the robots? If so, which one? Do you think it could help you with various tasks — or would it mostly be just a cool thing to have?
Oct 24, 2018

Learning With: ‘Harvard’s Admissions Process, Once Secret, Is Unveiled in Affirmative Action Trial’

A trial examining whether Harvard University discriminates against Asian-American applicants has revealed a number of secrets about its admissions process.
Jan 23, 2019

Glaciers Are Retreating. Millions Rely on Their Water.

Do you know where your water comes from? Do you feel confident that you have easy access to safe, clean water?
May 03, 2019

Chronicles of the Rings: What Trees Tell Us

Trees can live without us, but we really cannot live without trees. They produce oxygen. They provide wood for our furniture and the buildings in which we live. They bear the fruit that we eat. And they are great to sit under and read.
Mar 13, 2019

When Plasma Becomes Another Fruit of the Vine

For 20 years, people have been putting grapes in the microwave to watch them explode. But there is some real science behind this internet phenomenon.
Apr 02, 2019

Adaptive Video Game Controllers Open Worlds for Gamers With Disabilities

Do you like playing video games? Why? What’s your favorite game? Do you have a favorite game system or game controller?
Dec 11, 2018

Yes, the Octopus Is Smart as Heck. But Why?

An octopus in an aquarium in Brest, France. The animals are highly intelligent, but researchers are uncertain how the trait evolved.

Jan 07, 2022

These Whales Are Serenaders of the Seas. It’s Quite a Racket.

Why do whales sing? Scientists still aren’t certain, and maybe the whales aren’t, either.
Jan 03, 2022

The Republican Party Is Succeeding Because We Are Not a True Democracy

The Jan. 6 attack would not have happened in a genuine democracy. The attack was the most acute symptom — so far — of the political crisis that Donald Trump incited by refusing to admit defeat in the 2020 election. But the roots of the crisis run deep into the undemocratic features of our constitutional system.
Jan 03, 2022

This Isn’t the California I Married

The honeymoon’s over for its residents now that wildfires are almost constant. Has living in this natural wonderland lost its magic?
Jan 04, 2022

The Nobel Peace Prize That Paved the Way for War

This is the story behind how Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, won a Nobel Prize for making peace with his country’s longtime enemy — and then used the alliance to plan a war.