The Virtual Vet Will See You Meow
Milkshake and Pickles are reluctant travelers. So when Patience Warren needed to take the two elderly cats on a 12-hour drive in February, she was hoping to get some pharmaceutical…
Opinion | Here’s Where College Students Reveal What They Truly Care About
In the debate over free speech and social justice, commentators on the right and the “heterodox” left often claim that college students are all either stridently liberal or cowed into…
How Elon Musk Is Changing the Twitter Experience
Elon Musk has declared he wants to transform Twitter into an all-inclusive app that people can use for payments, news and food orders. “Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating…
In A.I. Race, Microsoft and Google Choose Speed Over Caution
In March, two Google employees, whose jobs are to review the company’s artificial intelligence products, tried to stop Google from launching an A.I. chatbot. They believed it generated inaccurate and…
South Carolina Democrats, Stung by String of Losses, Clash Over Next Leader
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, a longtime kingmaker in Democratic politics who helped resurrect President Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, exercised his influence on Wednesday over…
How A.I. and DNA Are Unlocking the Mysteries of Global Supply Chains
At a cotton gin in the San Joaquin Valley, in California, a boxy machine helps to spray a fine mist containing billions of molecules of DNA onto freshly cleaned Pima…
Opinion | The Abortion Ban Backlash Is Starting to Freak Out Republicans
After the Republican Party’s disappointing performance in the 2022 midterms, fueled in large part by a backlash to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, the Republican National Committee…
Opinion | Can Trade Wars Help Save the Climate?
In other words, solving climate change was a prisoner’s dilemma, where each country had individual incentives that worked against the world’s. Scholars, including William Nordhaus, the Nobel-Prize-winning Yale economist, spent…
U.S. Economy May Be Heading to a Place That Must Not Be Named
In the 12 months through March, the average stock fund lost 8.3 percent, while the average taxable bond fund lost 3.6 percent. That was a terrible year. In the first…
New Support for Some Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Sightings
Depending on whom you ask, the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine has either been extinct for nearly a century or has been just really good at hiding. Now new research examining…