A trust fund that helps pay Social Security benefits for more than 60 million retirees and family members is expected to run out of money in 2032. Unless Congress makes changes by then, seniors will ...

Scientists around the world are warning a strong El Niño this year, colloquially dubbed a super El Niño, could lead to extreme weather events — from heavy rainfall to exacerbated droughts. The ...

Plants live off light, capturing its energy through photosynthesis to make food, but we lack the molecular machinery to do the same. Now, a research team has tricked out lab-grown mouse and human ...

A shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) could trigger a substantial release of stored ocean carbon into the atmosphere over hundreds of years, according to a new study ...

Is consciousness something the brain produces, or is it woven into the fabric of reality itself? Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch is challenging long-held scientific assumptions by confronting ...

The economies of the Persian Gulf countries depend on oil and natural gas. Their populations depend on desalinated water. Nature endows the Arabian Peninsula with scant freshwater resources.

2019’s Ready or Not was a breath of fresh air: a simple, savage game of hide and seek that announced not just directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett and producer Chad Villella, the filmmaking ...

The U.S. and Israel's military strikes against Iran pose serious risks to oil markets and by extension the global economy, although the extent of the impact on oil production and trade is not yet ...

Inu Manak is a senior fellow for trade policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. The Supreme Court ruled [PDF] that U.S. President Donald Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers ...

If you think of Earth’s climate system as a backyard swing that’s been gently swaying for millennia, then human-caused global warming is like a sudden shove strong enough to disrupt the usual arc and ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is entering a decisive phase—one defined less by speculative breakthroughs than by the hard realities of governance, adoption, and strategic competition. As AI systems ...

An Upper West Side “boogie” man is causing a disco ball inferno on West 86th Street. Residents are not digging the blinding purple light caused by what they assumed was a disco ball on the ninth floor ...