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At a glance, the Japanese water scavenger beetle Regimbartia attenuata looks like any other beetle. It is small, black, and pleasantly round. It has your standard set of beetle legs (six) and is ...

It’s always good when the NBA tells you when it plans to do something it has already decided to do. You can think of the ...

Chip-maker Nvidia became a multi-trillion-dollar company the classic way: by selling shovels in the middle of a gold rush. As the generative AI bubble swelled and distended, Nvidia was there to sell ...

Raw power is winning out these days. While one of the great pleasures of the sport is watching the intersection of sharply contrasting styles of play, I have temporarily set aside all those nuances.

For a seventh straight night, the WNBA and players’ union left an all-day collective bargaining session Monday without a deal in place. The two sides have spent around 90 hours in in-person meetings ...

Half an hour into the Nitehawk Workers Union’s winter rally, 50 or so people had gathered across the street from the Nitehawk Prospect Park Theater to chant, hold signs, and shiver on a Friday too ...

On March 10, the Bigfoot Society noted an “unprecedented” multi-day mass migration of bigfoots—possibly bigfeet—in the vicinity of Portage County, Ohio. The “unidentified bipedal hominids” were moving ...

The greatest betrayal of my life was when my little sister texted the group chat a screenshot of the movie Goat with a demand to “clear your calendars,” and over my protests, my older sister agreed, ...