Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery tries to recast a life of privilege in often baffling ways.

An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

An interactive story about the birds that capture our curiosity, told through data, visuals and illustrations

As looksmaxxing enters our lexicon, the practice of bonesmashing—tapping your face with a hammer to shape your bone structure—is trailing close behind.

An experiment in language change

In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”

As the number of powerful, wealthy people revealed to have associated with Jeffrey Epstein increases, so too does the coherence of their collective excuse: They only knew Epstein as a genius of math and science, a polymath who could dispense tax advice worth hundreds of millions of dollars, opine on quantum entanglement, and offer wise counsel on how to navigate choppy political and social waters. They were not sending obsequious emails to Epstein in his capacity as a conduit for shady money, world-historic sex criminal or, uh, shadow representative of Israel. They were simply seeking his considerable breadth and depth of knowledge. Both the content and style of Epstein's emails undermine the claim of his genius.

New research shows that seasoned birders — including older adults — had denser tissue in parts of the brain tied to attention and perception.

Video footage shows former peer being driven away shortly after being escorted from his London home by officers

An internal investigation by the University of Maryland Police Department found that Meadows met the College Park student on a social media website known as “FET: Kinky BDSM Dating.”

Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

I started trying to get LLMs to do math in July 2020, through the game "AI Dungeon," one of the earliest applications powered by GPT-3. I first got GPT-3 to produce a correct proof (of Fermat's Little Theorem) in April 2022. At the time I did not think they would become useful for math research in the near term. This changed when the first reasoning models were released: on February 1, 2025, I wrote that the model o3-mini-high “clearly has passed the threshold of genuine usefulness” for research, while still making many, many mistakes. Since then, the models have improved, and ChatGPT 5.2 Pro (released in December 2025) can regularly provide reasonable proofs of lemmas that I would characterize as “involved but routine for experts,” though it still makes many errors. And I have been using Codex, OpenAI's coding/computer use agent, for scientific computing tasks I would not have considered attempting a few months ago. ... I think I have been underrating the pace of model improvements. In March 2025 I made a bet with Tamay Besiroglu, cofounder of RL environment company Mechanize, that AI tools would not be able to autonomously produce papers I judge to be at a level comparable to that of the best few papers published in 2025, at comparable cost to human experts, by 2030. I gave him 3:1 odds at the time; I now expect to lose this bet.

The state rescinded its request to dismiss a sexual abuse lawsuit after a judge became aware of New York Focus’s findings.

An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

The operation set off a wave of violence, with torched cars and gunmen blocking highways in more than half a dozen states.

U.S. Secret Service announced Sunday that an armed man was shot and killed after entering the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Fla.

As smoking rates fall in the U.S., startups and influencers are pushing the purported cognitive and health benefits of indulging in nicotine.

Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.

Federal prosecutors have arraigned four people in New Jersey, with a fifth at large in Colombia

A mother of three in Utah self-published a children’s book to help her sons cope with the death of their father. Now she is on trial accused of murder