When done well, MacGuffins can be useful plot devices to tie in a narrative. When done badly, as in these five examples, the ...

Missing inventor Julian Brown’s mother says he is safe after he went dark online following ominous Instagram post - The ...

An innovative thermal energy storage system in use at a New York state university campus is an example of the long-term ...

The county court now has a solution to what people should do with their cell phones in court. Just park it yonder.

In Hulu’s soapy “Washington Black,” about an early-nineteenth-century slave who escapes to Halifax, Brown rises above the ...

As a student, Johannes Ackva wore a hair shirt so itchy and uncomfortable that even Greta Thunberg might have approved.

The AI-enabled robotic assembly system uses computer vision and a proprietary algorithm to identify the optimal anatomical site on the cockroach’s back for electrode implantation, ensuring accurate ...

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have built the world’s first automated cyborg insect “factory line”. Supported by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), ...

Beloved actor, theater producer, and “backstage philosopher” Adrian Churchill died at home on July 26, 2025. He was 59.

Terry towelling — whether it be clothing babies, adorning a poolside Bond or mopping tennis players’ brows — altered domestic ...

We celebrate the period as a golden age of cultural rebirth. But two new books argue that the Renaissance, as we imagine it, ...