These “Smart Bricks” and “Smart Play” initiatives, just announced at CES 2026, aren’t like the huge Lego Mario toys that ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins.

This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor ...

It’s a vampire movie, a video game adaptation, a medieval action picture, and one of those low-budget movies featuring an ...

There is something mesmerising about Yorgos Lanthimos’ satirical black comedy Bugonia, a film that incisively dissects conspiracy and corporate power. Its premise seems deceptively simple: two ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature and evolution. Now, USC researchers want to add a ...

Movies are the great escape. “Optimistic endings, passionate romances,” sings the incarcerated dreamer of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” who looks to old Hollywood movies as an oasis of beauty and faith.

A multilayered political thriller, a dark-comedy salute to radical resistance, a ping-pong picaresque and a bluesy vampire tale set in Jim Crow Mississippi are among THR film reviewers’ favorites of ...

Anyone will tell you that these are tumultuous, borderline-apocalyptic times for the film industry. Box office is down. The threat of AI looms. Billionaires and tech giants are laying waste to what ...

It’s that time of the year when PBS News Hour invites two of our regular literary critics, Ann Patchett and Maureen Corrigan, to highlight their favorite books of the year. Jeffrey Brown picks up the ...

The Art of the Brick, a world-renowned art exhibition by artist Nathan Sawaya, is on display in downtown Cincinnati. It will be on view through the spring and summer months. “Art of the Brick is a ...

When I think of 2025, I can’t help but think of how it started, with the loss of a titan and a personal hero of mine, David Lynch. In my confused and frightened teenage years, I caught a late-night ...