There has been considerable debate among physicists over the last 15 years about conflicting measurements of the charge ...

Louise Erdrich was getting help with her computer when her daughter discovered something on the hard drive. A short story. “‘Love of My Days’ was a forgotten file in my computer, and when I found it ...

Hydrogen is expensive to produce, and renewably produced “green” hydrogen even costlier (averaging, at retail, $32 per kilogram, which is roughly the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas). So it was a ...

Research from Poland adds to evidence from Latin American countries that compounds in used cigarette butts ward off parasites in bird nests. By Lesley Evans Ogden Darwin’s finches in the Galápagos, ...

People say it every day without thinking ― “two o’clock,” “six o’clock,” “eight o’clock sharp.” But what is the purpose of that little “o” and apostrophe? Is it short for something? Why do we only use ...

Iran invented the relatively simple Shahed 136 attack drone, but is now fending off US copies launched against it in combat. Why, when the US military has expensive, cutting-edge and hi-tech weapons, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Addictive Stock / Getty Images Sunflower oil doesn’t get much attention in American kitchens. But chefs and dietitians say ...

At his State of the Union speech Tuesday, President Donald Trump made his latest push for Congress to pass the SAVE America Act to overhaul elections by falsely claiming that “the only way” Democrats ...

Biometric authentication—the ability to unlock your devices by using just your face or fingerprint—is one of the few smartphone features that, even today, leave me feeling like we’re living in the ...

If all had gone according to plan, four astronauts might have been returning just this week from a history-making, 10-day slingshot trip around the moon. Instead, NASA’s engineers have been grappling ...

This essay was reprinted from David Epstein’s newsletter Range Widely. Subscribe here. Read more of Slate’s 2026 Olympics coverage here. American figure skater Ilia Malinin, known as the “Quad God” ...