The 2025 hurricane season was a study in contrasts. In one way, it felt very quiet in the United States. No storms made landfall in the U.S. for the first time since 2015. And, for about three weeks ...

Chris Impey has received funding from NASA, NSF, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Templeton Foundation. If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which ...

The normal distribution is a concept in statistics that assumes all values are distributed in the same pattern. It requires symmetry and consistent proportions in the distribution of values. Normal ...

The disintegration of a democracy is a deceptively quiet affair. For a while, everything looks the same. Each authoritarian milestone—the first political prisoner, the first closure of an opposition ...

When business researchers analyze data, they often rely on assumptions to help make sense of what they find. But like anyone else, they can run into a whole lot of trouble if those assumptions turn ...

While its origins are often associated with the post-war reconstruction of Europe, the style was also adopted globally as a powerful expression of modernity and national identity in many newly ...

United Natural Foods (UNFI), a major distributor of groceries to Whole Foods and other retailers, said on Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack, warning of disruptions to its ability to fulfill and ...

This report describes the world’s religious makeup in 2020 and how it changed from 2010. We focus on seven categories: Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, people who belong to other ...

The word "normal" permeates many aspects of our lives—from medicine to fashion, intelligence testing to behavior. However, beneath its comforting surface lies a more complex and potentially limiting ...

PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped. By Apoorva Mandavilli The Trump administration has instructed ...

His administration would have more power to impose economic penalties and travel restrictions, and potentially even take military action inside foreign countries. By Eileen Sullivan Reporting from ...