The world is heading into an era of energy oversupply, with US-backed LNG and China-backed solar competing for the hearts — and wallets — of emerging markets. Beijing and Washington are betting on opposite energy futures. The International Energy Agency’s latest World Energy Outlook shows each…

This display can only be used by its included Mac. I’ve been thinking about Apple’s relationship with computer displays lately. Maybe it was the report that the iMac Pro might somehow return, combined with John Voorhees of MacStories detailing how he gave up the Studio Display for an ASUS monitor?…

The organization, which began as a nonprofit, charges hospitals for access to its donor registry.Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times The National Kidney Registry has matched thousands of kidney donors with recipients. It has also paid millions of dollars to a company owned by its founder.…

On December 24, 1865, just eight months after the Civil War ended, former Confederate soldiers founded the KKK. This week the UK Guardian reported that neo-Nazis are seeing a resurgence and revival, especially as the FBI backs off in combatting white supremacy terrorism. To understand why our nation…

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they evolved flashy petals. Now we know how they may have done it: not with dazzling color but with radiant heat. A study published today in Science reveals that cycads, tropical…

Last month, journalist Karen Hao posted a Twitter thread in which she acknowledged that there was a substantial error in her blockbuster book Empire of AI. Hao had written that a proposed Google data center in a town near Santiago, Chile, could require “more than one thousand times the amount of…

How life begins remains an unsolved question. One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone is convinced, and RNA is possibly just one of many…

One evening last September, Pitambar Panda, a 24-year-old product designer in the Indian city of Pune, mounted his pearly white electric Ola scooter. He accelerated noiselessly through the city’s busy avenues on his way home from work. Learn more 0:00/37:28 When he was shopping for a scooter a few…

Technology reporter Karen Hao started reporting on artificial intelligence in 2018, before ChatGPT was introduced, and is one of the few journalists to gain access to the inner world of the chatbot’s creator, OpenAI. In her book Empire of AI, Hao outlines the rise of the controversial company. In…

No other series has managed to capture isolation and discovery like Metroid Prime. The solitude in being stranded on an alien planet, tucking yourself into a Morph Ball to satisfyingly weave through tight spaces, or the compulsive urge to scan anything and everything around you to discover hidden…

Two particular phases in your nightly routine seem to play outsize roles in cognitive health. Listen to this article · 6:25 min Learn more Credit...Georgette Smith By April 25, 2025 Leer en español A good night’s sleep isn’t just about the number of hours you log. Getting quality sleep — the kind…

All hope is lost for the Lamorn. By the time Samus Aran is transported to Viewros, a distant planet far from home, the race of psychic aliens seems to be all but extinct. There are no traces of life, and any attempts to save themselves from a species-threatening calamity seem to have failed. They…

NBC News, back in March 2018: Speaking at a town hall event hosted by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and Recode’s Kara Swisher, Cook said Facebook put profits above all else when it allegedly allowed user data to be taken through connected apps. [...] When asked what he would do if he were in Zuckerberg’s…

When Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is good, it’s good. The latest in Nintendo’s sci-fi exploration franchise, and the first since Metroid Dread in 2021, Beyond captures the moody sense of isolation and discovery that has been so core to Metroid since it debuted in 1986. Those quiet moments truly make you…

With little being done to clean the skies over New Delhi, the huge city struggles with its toxic air. Listen to this article · 6:20 min Learn more India Is a Rising Power, but Its Capital Is a Lethal Gas Chamber - The New York Times Visuals by Anindito Mukherjee The reporters spent a day on the…

Last month, some House members publicly acknowledged that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza. It’s a judgment that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch unequivocally proclaimed a year ago. Israeli human-rights organizations have reached the same conclusion. But such clarity is…

Trilobites In a small study, pet cats greeted male owners with more vocalizations than they did female caregivers. Listen to this article · 4:12 min Learn more Credit...Aleksei Poprotskii/Alamy By Nov. 27, 2025 Leer en español As he lectured on animal behavior, Kaan Kerman, an instructor in the…

Voters in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District voted on Tuesday, Dec. 2, to fill a vacancy left by Republican representative Mark Green, who resigned from Congress in July 2025. The election for this rural seat went for Republican candidate Matt Van Epps over Democratic candidate Aftyn Behn, with…

The late 1980s and early to mid 1990s were Apple’s weirdest and wildest era. Wedged between the triumph of the original Macintosh and the return of Steve Jobs were a sort of Wilderness Years where the company flailed all over the place, ultimately flaming out and requiring the now-famous rescue by…

In my post earlier today on the then-breaking news that Alan Dye has left Apple to join Meta as chief design officer (a new title at the company1), I wrote: It sounds like Dye chose to jump ship, and wasn’t squeezed out (as it seems with former AI chief John Giannandrea earlier this week).…

I learned a long time ago not to make it personal when it comes to criticizing Apple. As someone on the outside looking in, I can (and do) judge what Apple does, but it’s hard to ever know the inner workings of a company if you’re not on the inside. You could blame one executive for a misstep, only…

We all know people with very different levels of motivation. Some will go the extra mile in any endeavour. Others just can’t be bothered to put the effort in. We might think of them as lazy – happiest on the sofa, rather than planning their latest project. What’s behind this variation? Most of us…

“Developing superintelligence is now in sight,” says Mark Zuckerberg, heralding the “creation and discovery of new things that aren’t imaginable today.” Powerful AI “may come as soon as 2026 [and will be] smarter than a Nobel Prize winner across most relevant fields,” says Dario Amodei, offering the…

Acquiring solar panels at home can be an expensive hassle for people in the US. But small, simple, plug-in solar panels for use on balconies are soon to become available for millions of Americans, with advocates hoping the technology will quickly go mainstream. Earlier this year, Utah became the…

Cats have been on quite a journey from wild animal to undisputed ruler of millions of couches worldwide. A pair of new studies published on Thursday show that the road to cat domestication was far more complex than scientists first suspected. One of the new papers, published in Science, centers on…

In July 2024, Magdalena Robinson was laid off from her job as a vice president of talent acquisition at a media agency. The news came as a shock — by all accounts she was doing well — but she saw a silver lining: Maybe it was finally time for a career break. She took the rest of the year off,…

A group of liberal senators is quietly challenging the minority leader over his approach to the midterms and President Trump, in a sign of the party’s deep frustration. Listen to this article · 9:04 min Learn more Democrats have increasingly broken ranks in recent months to criticize Senator Chuck…

Coffee beans and chocolate; coffee fruit on the plant; bags of roasted coffee; a mug of coffee with a pile of roasted beans f you are a consumer of coffee or of chocolate, I have a question for you: Could you easily find the identity of the farmer or farm cooperative and the country of origin of the…

News Analysis Election defeats earlier this month and the approach of 2026 have G.O.P. lawmakers cautiously asserting themselves. Credit...Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times News Analysis Election defeats earlier this month and the approach of 2026 have G.O.P. lawmakers cautiously asserting…

Apple’s been making interesting tweaks to its operating systems after the release of the 26.0 versions in September. Back in October, the 26.1 beta cycle brought Slide Over back to iPadOS, a feature that’s now released for everyone. We’re now three betas into the 26.2 beta cycle, and this week…

For humans, kissing holds major cultural cachet, accompanying confessions of romantic love, religious rituals of reverence and even betrayals, à la The Godfather Part II’s “kiss of death.” New research suggests that kissing probably predates humanity and evolved between 16.9 million and 21.5 million…

As many as 70 million people in the U.S. have problems with sleep, and many are increasingly turning to melatonin supplements to help them fall asleep. People generally perceive these over-the-counter gummies, liquids and tablets as harmless. But recent research has raised new questions about…

Artist Doug Rosenberg (center) leads a group of volunteers to his guerrilla wetland in the Los Angeles River. Courtney Theophin/NPR LOS ANGELES — To many locals, the Los Angeles River — hugged by concrete embankments and heavy vehicle traffic — hardly seems like a river at all. The waterway…

A team that faced seemingly insurmountable odds wins its first championship, with wider ramifications for the role women play in public life. Listen to this article · 6:39 min Learn more Harmanpreet Kaur and her teammates on India’s national women’s cricket team celebrate their win, right after…

It’s the milestone 10th anniversary of the iPad Pro. iPadOS 26 has dramatically improved the iPad’s power-user functionality. And the new M5 iPad Pro has brought unprecedented power to the platform. With all that in mind, I decided to revisit one of my old experiments and travel (to London, for a…

Katie Wilson, who narrowly defeated the incumbent, Bruce Harrell, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing. Seattle’s mayor-elect, Katie Wilson, was elected on a wave of energy from the political left, in Seattle and beyond.Credit...Ruth…

Ms. Wilson, a self-described socialist, joined the race after Mayor Bruce Harrell opposed taxing high-income residents to finance construction of new housing. Listen to this article · 4:01 min Learn more Katie Wilson had never sought public office before her run for mayor in Seattle.Credit...Ruth…

In his victory speech after winning the New York mayoral election last week, Zohran Mamdani came out swinging. The speech included, among other dramatic flourishes, a reference to the socialist titan Eugene Debs, shoutouts to the city’s “Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses”, tributes to…

Given the choice, Apple would have rolled out its first custom-designed Mac chips on its own terms, probably at a high-profile event in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park. But given that it was November 2020, the company was forced to release a 45-minute video instead. No amount of in-person…