After the tumult and triumphs of 2020, here are the achievements that shaped the first year following the country’s racial reckoning. Erin Schaff/The New York Times (Kamala Harris); Scott McIntyre for ...

The year’s most exciting discoveries include a Viking “piggy bank,” a lost Native American settlement and a secret passageway hidden behind a bookshelf Cool Finds Meilan Solly - Senior Associate ...

2021 Ryder Cup results, scores, standings: United States dominates Europe for biggest win in modern history The United States has won back-to-back Ryder Cups on home soil for the first time since 1979 ...

After 2020 brought the most devastating global pandemic in a century and a national reckoning with systemic racism, 2021 ushered in a number of welcome developments, including Covid vaccines, the ...

President Biden, in 2021, became the first U.S. president to recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day officially. That year, he proclaimed to observe the second Monday in October as a day to honor Native ...

It’s an indelible image of science fiction made real. Actor William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk in the original Star Trek TV series, choking up as he described his flight with Blue Origin, after ...

Fights over how we tell our national story go back more than a century — and have a great deal to teach us about our current divisions. Credit...Illustration by Derek Brahney Supported by By Jake ...

We'll never know how Baylor would've fared in the canceled 2020 NCAA tournament, amid a season in which the Bears won 23 consecutive games from Nov. 15 through Feb. 18. But they left no doubt to their ...

Take a look back at the 2021-22 NBA season, in which the Warriors emerged as NBA champions. From NBA.com Staff PREVIOUS SEASON | NEXT SEASON The NBA kicked off the season by celebrating the milestone ...

New Yorker writers reflect on the year’s highs and lows. This superb biography of the former French leader brilliantly explores how he managed to dominate his country’s political life for decades.

In late 1987, Robert Malone performed a landmark experiment. He mixed strands of messenger RNA with droplets of fat, to create a kind of molecular stew. Human cells bathed in this genetic gumbo ...