The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...

President Donald Trump has just announced a trade deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping after months of escalating trade tensions. Trump has repeatedly proposed — and reneged on — plans to impose ...

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Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm embracing my strangeness," she says of her poetry. Her new collection is Startlement. This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya ...

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Under a midnight moon, Luigi Garlaschelli peered out over graves. He was scouting for glowing balls of light known as will-o’-the-wisps. Like a ghostbuster, Garlaschelli, a chemist formerly at the ...

This week, President Trump spoke before the UN General Assembly (UNGA) for the first time in six years during the annual meeting of heads of state in New York City. The General Assembly is the ...

President Trump says he is designating the decentralized anti-fascist movement known as “antifa” as a terrorist organization, as conservatives blame left-wing groups and ideas for creating the ...

UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, or EECS, lecturer Peyrin Kao is about a month into his hunger strike protesting “the use of tech in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.” Kao said simple ...

In a college-entrance-exam landscape long dominated by the SAT and the ACT, a relative newcomer has started to gain traction—especially in red states. The Classic Learning Test, first unveiled a ...

As President Donald Trump’s administration imposes new restrictions on the legal immigration system, U.S. adults are more likely than they were a year ago to think these immigrants benefit the country ...