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

President Donald Trump has repeatedly proposed — and reneged on — plans to impose tariffs on other countries, giving whiplash to both consumers and the stock market. Tariffs are a tax that U.S.

In the first piece in The Long Way Home series, Ángela Banks explores the obstacles that aging out stacks on for foster youth ...

President Donald Trump listens to a reporter’s question during a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the White House’s Oval Office on Sept. 25. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Around ...

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 ...

The iron-rich core at the center of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth's evolution. The core not only powers the magnetic field which shields our atmosphere and oceans from solar radiation, ...