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By studying fire scars in ancient wood, many scientists have become convinced that Indigenous people transformed North America long before European colonizers arrived. M.R. O’Connor spends time with dendrochronologists, who study tree rings, and other experts to understand what they’re learning: Anthropologist Omer Stewart, who began documenting Native American burning practices in the nineteen-thirties . […]

Low-quality AI-generated content currently dominates children’s media. Maka, a streaming platform run by child development experts, is offering an alternative.

As a recent government report on DOGE shows, even getting basic information out of the Trump administration will put a new Congress to the test.

Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.

True Graphic Jest depends on the mastery of certain languages.

The post The Daily Heller: Revisiting the Lighter Side of 1984 appeared first on PRINT Magazine.

The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s Elevate blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. For much of human history, we’ve evaluated code quality via code review: Someone reads what you wrote and makes sure it’s clean, thoughtful, fast, understandable, and tests well. For agents, that approach doesn’t scale well; there’s […]

With leaf peepers and visitors heading to the area for apple and pumpkin picking, the latest Mid-Hudson Bridge work could make crossing the river even more of a challenge. Continue reading…

It sounded familiar: Pneumonia reported near a lab studying infectious pathogens in a country where the government is known to conceal unfavorable information. Conflicting reports and unanswered questions about a […]

The post A death at a Russian plague lab raised pandemic fears. Here’s what experts are watching. appeared first on Poynter.

Among a collection’s many skulls, a grieving son learns how to live in a world that keeps going.

We've seen some creative ways to avoid paying for registration, but this New York driver may have taken things too f Continue reading…

A small but frustrating stretch of road in Poughkeepsie is getting a multimillion-dollar investment that promises more than just a smoother ride. Continue reading…

If you've ever hiked up Mount Beacon you may have noticed an abandoned brick building. Fun fact, those ruins were part of a hotel and casino that opened back in 1902. Continue reading…

Drivers who use the New York State Thruway will soon have to pay more to travel across the state, as another toll increase is scheduled to take effect at the beginning of 2027. Continue reading…

Students and parents in an Upstate New York school district had to scramble to get kids to school this week after vandals damaged multiple school buses over the holiday weekend, forcing the district to cancel its school bus runs. Continue reading…

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Though scaled back from initial plans of landing, the voyage will serve as a dress rehearsal for when humans return to the moon’s surface.

With Republicans trailing in the polls, the party is making hard choices about where to spend its money — abandoning some races while pouring resources into others. Shane Goldmacher, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Lisa Lerer, political correspondents for The New York Times, explain ...

Last week Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch was forced to admit the NYPD had mistakenly allowed a police officer to retire before he could face pending disciplinary charges for the death of a Queens teenager experiencing a mental health crisis. What Tisch did not mention was that the department had also failed for months to notify […]

The post NYPD Delayed Flagging Cop in Win Rozario Shooting Death to State Officials appeared first on The City Reporter.

Don’t bring a spreadsheet to a fear fight. Change causes fear. And change is all around us. The fear of the unknown. The fear of failure. The fear of uncertainty. Mostly, we’d like safety. And when the world changes, safety feels like it’s in short supply. One reason we have security theatre is that the […]

Earlier this week, Donald Trump made some audacious claims. He insisted at length that his rallies are having a “tremendously positive impact” on Republicans’ chances in the midterms, because it causes their support to “go up.” He also insisted costs are plummeting...