I traveled recently to visit extended family and, like many across the country, found myself as a visitor in the local Catholic Church. After two decades of marriage, my in-laws' suburban parish has ...

The Supreme Court will soon issue its ruling in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that could overturn the bans on conversion therapy for minors currently in place in 27 states. But while some people are ...

As Valentine’s Day approaches at Stanford, some students may be gearing up for first dates — not with people they met on Tinder or Hinge, but with matches from a service called Date Drop, designed by ...

The latest results of the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)’s Face Analysis Technology Evaluation Age Estimation & Verification (FATE AEV) are up, and they include two new ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

Medicare Advantage plans’ increasing use of predictive algorithms to assist in “high-stakes” decisions is leading to substantial and immediate cuts to nursing home lengths of stay, a new study ...

Countless everyday products, from plastic squeeze bottles to outdoor furniture, are derived by first turning propane into propylene. A 2021 study in Science demonstrated that chemists could use tandem ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that argued a Christian therapist in Colorado was restricted from counseling clients with unwanted sexual attractions. Adèle Keim from ...

Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. TikTok announced on Jan. 22, 2026, that it has formed TikTok ...