With the surge of ICE operations in Minnesota now in its third month, indie bookstore owners in the Twin Cities and beyond ...

The viral social network for bots reveals as much about our own current mania for AI as it does about the future of agents.

Two comic books originally sold on US newsstands for just 10 cents have sold for $13 million.

French art historian Thomas Schlesser is still adapting to life as a best-selling global author having written one of the ...

Here's how the JavaScript Registry evolves makes building, sharing, and using JavaScript packages simpler and more secure ...

Gen X learned who we were while sitting in front of the VCR, rewinding the same moments until they stuck.

It started with a meme, back in 2019: a collage calling out trans people who wrote some pretty nasty tweets at Rowling for ...

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. On Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies ...

It’s a complaint many algebra teachers are familiar with, as more letters and symbols are introduced with progressively harder courses in mathematics. But why did the plus symbol emerge as the ...

For something that happens mostly alone and in silence, reading can be surprisingly intimate. Our favorite books reveal our interests, inspire the way we think, and offer storylines and fantasies we ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...