Air pollution in India is no longer a winter irritant confined to the northern plains. It has become a persistent, nationwide public health emergency that affects every demographic group and nearly ...

In subreddits and X threads, commenters seem to be railing more and more against terrible visual effects and wondering why modern films and TV shows look so bad. But is that actually true? Let’s flip ...

Imagine you found a ring that made you invisible. You could do anything—take what you wanted, harm your enemies, advance your interests—with absolute impunity. No one would ever know. No consequences ...

Artificial intelligence startup Invisible Technologies, a competitor of Scale AI Inc., is raising $100 million in a new funding round that underscores Silicon Valley investors’ interest in the ...

On Wednesday, a massive earthquake off the eastern coast of Russia triggered a tsunami threatening Japan, Hawaii, and numerous other places already made far more dangerous by rising sea levels.

The paradox of invisible disabilities is a cruel and exhausting loop. Society tells me to mask my autism, to blend in, to not make others uncomfortable, and to play the game that is intrinsically ...

In 1961, MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz was inputting numbers into a weather prediction program. His model was based on a dozen variables, the value of one being .506127. When he ran the model again, ...

Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode "How taking a second look can change your everything" At an early age, Tavares Strachan noticed there was a lot missing from his family's encyclopedia. Today, the ...

Firefighter line-of-duty deaths (LODDs) can have lasting mental and emotional effects on both department members and those who know and love them. Those directly involved in the rescue or recovery of ...

Invisible Ink is one of the standout features Apple introduced to iMessage back in 2016, part of a suite of message effects designed to make texting feel more expressive. While others like "Slam" and ...