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On Sunday, Brazil votes again. The first round on October 4 sent Flávio Bolsonaro and President Lula da Silva to a runoff and embarrassed the pollsters on the way. An explainer on the two-round system, and on what a first round can tell you that a poll cannot.
Doyeon Kim
Last weekend, a three-hour documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, made in secret and released on fewer than 900 screens, sold out more than 2,000...
Hurricane Isaias knocked out power to more than 900,000 customers along the Gulf Coast, and within days the utilities were announcing that 95 percent...
This week a quantum computer kept one logical qubit almost perfectly clean across a million operations, beating every published record by a wide...
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How to apply →Three weeks before the midterms, the hot takes about young voters are loud and the registration numbers are quiet. The quiet numbers say something more interesting: a...
Six weeks before the midterms, Missouri held its primary on one congressional map and will hold its general...
The Argosy's politics desk has a new occupant — the first of the post-founder era, inheriting an archive of...
Over three years and dozens of countries, this column watched voters hire and fire the powerful — strongmen...
A year ago this week, the federal tax credit for electric cars expired, and forecasters warned of a hangover after the last-minute buying rush. The hangover came. So did...
Seven months into what the head of the International Energy Agency calls the biggest energy security threat in...
The United States just installed more grid batteries in three months than in any quarter on record, and on the...
Every climate project can fill a sign-up sheet in September. The research on who returns for a second shift is...
On Tuesday, the Television Academy announced that the Emmys will move to Prime Video next year, ending a run on broadcast networks that began in 1955. Television's own...
On Tuesday, Spider-Man: Brand New Day passed Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become the highest-grossing film...
The biggest World Cup ever staged kicked off this week across three countries: forty-eight teams, one hundred...
A political action thriller about resistance and state power swept the Academy Awards — six trophies,...
This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to a tool that lets scientists switch individual brain cells on and off with light. It started with a single-celled...
Yesterday was Montana's deadline for the new Medicaid work requirement. On January 1, most of the country...
In November, a panel of experts will review whether measles is once again at home in the United States. Case...
This fall's flu shot isn't last year's shot with a new label. All three of its ingredients were swapped out,...
For fifteen years, one famous study has been cited as proof that search engines are eroding our memories. The replications tell a more complicated story, and a more...
A few weeks into a new school year, a lot of us are replaying moments nobody else remembers. Psychologists...
Every August, the dread arrives on schedule — and every August, it gets misdiagnosed. The unsettled feeling of...
With the first daily weight-loss pill now on pharmacy shelves, obesity medicine has entered its mass-market...
This week Stockholm handed out three science prizes: to a telescope made of Antarctic ice, to light switches borrowed from pond algae, and to a reaction that picks a...
In January this desk said AI-designed drugs had entered the exam room with no grades posted. This month one of...
The most consequential engineering company of the century went public last week in the largest IPO ever...
For years, "AI will design new medicines" has been the tech industry's favorite promise. This year the promise...
This year, Korea's classroom phone ban took effect as national law and France extended its own to every lycée. Across the world, the smartphone is being taken out of...
On September 8, the OECD released the PISA 2025 results: one test, one report, ninety-one countries and...
Every Korean male student abroad carries a second calendar: the eighteen months of military service that must...
Every school on Earth is currently writing its artificial-intelligence policy, mostly in a hurry, mostly by...
Warner Bros. — the century-old studio behind Batman, Harry Potter, and HBO — agreed to sell itself to Netflix, until a hostile all-cash counterbid ripped the deal away at...
Everyone knows the AI boom's famous names. Fewer people can name the companies that make the memory chips...
The chipmaker invests in the AI lab, which spends the money on the chipmaker's chips. The cloud provider's...
The United States government shut down this week, and the world's largest economy began running without parts...
Venezuela won the World Baseball Classic, Japan fell early, and Korea — after seventeen years of first-round heartbreak — finally escaped the group stage under captain...
This school year, for the first time, American universities are paying their athletes directly — millions per...
Within thirty-six hours, two baseball worlds crowned champions: the Dodgers survived an eleven-inning Game 7...
Europe walked into the loudest venue in golf and won the Ryder Cup on American soil for the first time in...
