Growing up, my mom would receive new dish towels every Christmas. Naive as I was, I’d tease her for getting excited about the ...

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The Senate passed a six-month spending bill on Friday hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President Donald Trump to be signed ...

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An excerpt from ‘Cotton Fever’ by Senthil Jagannathan, translated by Anjana Shekar, from ‘The Mozhi Prize Anthology 1: A ...

Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991' in Vienna sheds light upon 48 women artists who engaged critically with computation ...

With an estimated 240 billion pennies in circulation, it’ll be a long time before we stop seeing them in the wild.

This is the most probable date when Black explorer Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable begins building the settlement, which would eventually become the city of Chicago, Ill. The Haitian-born (c 1745) du ...

Photography has always been about evolution — of techniques, of tools, and of presentation. Just as silver gelatin ...

Looking for a hint for today's NYT Connections? Read on for hints and the answer to today's Connections game on Wednesday, ...