LOADING ERROR LOADING Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave a forceful performance in defense of the race-conscious history of the 14th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act on Tuesday, her second day hear

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In a milestone move to expand enrollment at the nation’s most popular university by creating a satellite campus, UCLA announced Tuesday that it is buying two large properties owned by Marymount Califo

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Since the near-simultaneous arrival of the iPhone 8 and iPhone X in 2017, Apple has been on a mission to split the iPhone product line into two distinct sets of models: a more expensive set that incor

Extreme heat is testing the way energy is generated, delivered and traded — and raising the prospect of perpetual emergencies. Power lines in Cathedral City, Calif. During a heat wave this month, the

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When is the pandemic “over”? In the early days of 2020, we envisioned it ending with the novel coronavirus going away entirely. When this became impossible, we hoped instead for elimination: If enough

No one can predict how a revolution starts. Nor can anyone know when one injustice will be what causes a people’s fury to overcome their fear. In 2011, in Tunisia, a street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, s

Matter Omicron, the 13th named variant of the coronavirus, seems to have a remarkable capacity to evolve new tricks. Booster shots administered from a mobile clinic in Salt Lake City this month. One o

If Apple Watch Ultra were the first (and thus only) Apple Watch, people would lose their minds. It’s big and very unsubtle. It makes a statement on the wrist. But the Ultra is not the first Apple Watc

I’m not sure how you can underestimate one of the world’s most successful companies, but somehow we managed to do it with Apple regarding Wednesday’s “Far Out” event. Take the Apple Watch Ultra: Back

This article appears in the September 19/26, 2022 issue . (Sarah Jane Speidel) The last patient of the day sat in a blue recliner in the recovery room at Trust Women in Wichita , Kan. It was late afte

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America’s first-ever reformulated COVID-19 vaccines are coming, very ahead of schedule, and in some ways, the timing couldn’t be better. Pfizer’s version of the shot, which combines the original recip

Affirmative Action Was Banned at Two Top Universities. They Say They Need It. As a Supreme Court case on college admissions nears, the California and Michigan university systems say their efforts to b

This article was originally published in Knowable Magazine . As governments drag their feet in responding to climate change, many concerned people are looking for actions that they can take as individ

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. It is no exaggeration to say that his signature immediately severed the history of climate change in America into two eras.

B y now you’ve surely heard : Reports of the Democrats’ inevitable defeat this November (might) have been exaggerated . The party infamous for its disarray is suddenly passing legislation left and rig

The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, at the University of British Columbia, showing off some timber. CIRS Architects, builders, and sustainability advocates are all abuzz over a new

Every few years, American politics astonishes you. Yesterday was one of those days. In the late afternoon, Senator Joe Manchin announced that he had reached a compromise with Senate Majority Leader Ch

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Biden Administration Plans to Offer Updated Booster Shots in September With reformulated shots from Pfizer and Moderna on the horizon, the F.D.A. has decided that Americans under 50 should wait to rec

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Part of the July 2022 issue of The Highlight , our home for ambitious stories that explain our world. The Covid era has produced a number of mixed narratives about housing, land use, and migration pat

It’s an emerging technology that climate experts say can prevent billions of tons of greenhouse gases from entering Earth’s atmosphere. By capturing carbon dioxide as it spews from oil refineries, pow

Astronomy can be, in some ways, a bit like the classic board game Clue. Scientists explore a sprawling but ultimately contained world, collecting pieces of information and testing out theories about a

The M2 MacBook Air marks the second generation of Apple silicon Macs. But it still seems hard for us, collectively, to wrap our heads around the sea change these chips have enabled. When I reviewed on

There are some product designs that it’s a cardinal sin to mess with. Omega will never redo the Speedmaster because it’s the watch that first went to the moon. The colour of Heinz’s Baked Beans cans i

About six months have elapsed since the most powerful space telescope in history bid farewell to Earth and took off into the darkness . In that time, the James Webb Space Telescope has deployed its go

The definitive Mac of the last decade was the 13-inch MacBook Air , introduced in 2010 and featuring a wedge-shaped design. It influenced all the Apple laptops (and let’s face it, a lot of PC laptops)

Today, in a ruling on a nonexistent plan with nonexistent harms to the people who brought the suit, the Supreme Court took an opportunity to curb the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to

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I come here not to bury the iPhone mini but to praise it. If reports are true, the iPhone 13 mini will be the last of its line, replaced by a larger iPhone 14 Max this fall. And as someone who owns an

Paige was having a great start to 2021. Her health was the best it had ever been. She loved her job and the people she worked with as a communications manager for a conservation nonprofit. She could g

The Omicron sub-variant BA.5 is the worst version of the virus that we’ve seen. It takes immune escape, already extensive, to the next level, and, as a function of that, enhanced transmissibility, wel