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The captain sounds the alarm. The waters around the ship rumble. Strange lights from deep below inch closer and closer to you ...

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. As the Illinois governor, J. B. Pritzker, begins a run for a third term and ...

The first full week of new PC game releases in 2026, including creature collectors, survival base builders, cosmic clickers ...

AI godfather Yoshua Bengio has raised concerns over the debate of giving rights to artificial intelligence (AI). According to ...

Indiana Fever star Kelsey Mitchell has sparked new speculation over her WNBA future after publishing a cryptic post Monday night. Taking to her X account, three-time All-Star Mitchell said she doesn't ...

Staying aware of your surroundings matters. That includes hearing smoke alarms, appliance beeps or a knock at the door. Still, real life gets busy. You wear headphones. You get focused. Sounds slip by ...

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When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.