Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

Americans might not be as divided as they often believe, according to a wide-ranging group of scholars and thought leaders who crunched thousands of data points for a new “State of the States” report.

OpenAI announced it will acquire Ona, a startup that provides cloud environments for AI agents. Ona's technology will allow OpenAI's coding assistant, Codex, to take on longer-running tasks, OpenAI ...

With $7.748 billion reported lost by Americans 60 and older in 2025, HCSK's Stolen Trust reads federal data and 1,910 news items together to show the scale, mechanics, and human cost of the crisis.

You have to hand it to the state of Florida. It’s a clever idea, this “calculator” they came up with, to see how much money you, a Florida homeowner, could save if the governor’s proposal to expand ...

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis delivers his State of the State address during the first day of the legislative session at the Capitol on Jan. 13, 2026, in Tallahassee. Photo by Matias J. Ocner ...

ALBANY — An Albany County sheriff’s official allegedly violated the rights of suspects during at least five different traffic stops between the summer of 2022 and early spring of 2025, according to a ...

Apple removed the vibe coding app Anything from the App Store on March 26, citing Section 2.5.2 of its App Review Guidelines. Co-founder Dhruv Amin was told his app violated Guideline 2.5.2, which ...

Maine is poised to freeze large data-center construction, which would make it the first state to enact such a measure as communities across the U.S. grapple with fallout from the boom in artificial ...