ICE has been given orders that critics say grant them the power to arrest “anyone they want,” according to an internal memo.

Last week, Anthropic released what it calls Claude’s Constitution, a 30,000-word document outlining the company’s vision for ...

Here's today's Wordle answer, plus a look at spoiler-free hints and past solutions. These clues will help you solve The New ...

We often think of ourselves as more capable than we really are. For example, according to this survey, four in five Americans ...

A new study published as a pre-peer-reviewed paper on arXiv and accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Word of the Year: Every year, leading dictionary websites select a “Word of the Year” to reflect the most important social, cultural, and digital trends of that year. These words are not chosen ...

How do words get their meanings? Why does the string of letters (and sounds) "d-o-g" mean "dog" and "c-a-t" mean "cat"? For the most part, meanings are conventions: A group of people (like speakers of ...

These words don’t mean what they once did centuries ago. In Shakespeare’s time, “cunning” simply meant clever or intellectually sharp, without any shady undertones. Today, calling someone cunning ...

Understanding 'capitulate' enhances communication and critical thinking. This word, meaning to surrender or yield, originates from Latin and signifies giving in after a struggle, whether in war, ...