Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

If you're reading this, congratulations on advancing to the second round of the 2025 fantasy football playoffs. Week 15 was a week of fantasy milestones. At quarterback, Trevor Lawrence posted a new ...

The stock market is hovering around record highs amid fears that artificial intelligence (AI) could be a bubble. For the last three years, the stock market has been heavily influenced by one key theme ...

They're beating the market, but not by a lot. Every year, I choose 10 top stocks to buy, and I evaluate how they've done relative to the market at the end of the year. In the past, my list has done ...

Remus is a writer, editor, journalist, and author with an eye for detail and an extremely active imagination. He is an enthusiast of everything to do with the graphic medium, whether it's Western ...

The story of the world’s wealthiest dynasties over the past year underscores one financial truism: size matters. The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a ...

After yet another year of high-profile news stories and internet trends, Merriam-Webster has chosen one word to sum up 2025: “slop.” The dictionary publisher defined it as “digital content of low ...

Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web app called ChatGPT in late 2022, it changed the course of an entire industry—and several world economies. Millions of people ...

Every year, designers at Pew Research Center create hundreds of charts, maps and other data visualizations. We also help make a range of other digital products, from “scrollytelling” features to ...

The year 2025 has been filled with cultural absurdities. Toothy plush dolls became one of the hottest and most elusive collectibles. A fiery feud between two rappers boiled over at the Super Bowl. And ...

Despite renewed online chatter, no federal agency or congressional leader has announced or confirmed any plan to distribute new stimulus payments this year. Without approval from Congress or the ...

Apple, Samsung, Google, and OnePlus brought their A-games with new phone releases in 2025. Not every aspect of every new device that those companies released was great. Some of the devices themselves ...