The White Oak Problem: How a Forest Crisis Could Reshape American Bourbon Forever Bourbon has survived Prohibition, survived the dark ages of the 1970s and '80s when American whiskey was deeply unfa ...

From Drake to Slayyyter to HELP!(2), our editorial staff's favorite LPs from the first half of the year.

Summary: Researchers argue that aphantasia, the complete inability to voluntarily form mental images, fundamentally shatters Hume’s theory and modern imagistic models of cognition. Individuals with ...

The best-yet test of artificial intelligence’s mathematical mettle has released its first official round of results. The verdict is that large language models (LLMs) are emerging as useful—albeit ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Federal agents were looking for records that might shed light on why chemicals overheated, threatening a catastrophe in Orange County. By Tim Arango and Livia Albeck-Ripka Livia Albeck-Ripka reported ...

Majorities in most of the three dozen countries we’ve surveyed this year express an unfavorable view of Israel and little or no confidence in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. These findings come ...

A trailer loaded with fireworks erupted in flames along a Tennessee interstate Saturday night, sending pyrotechnics shooting across the roadway and forcing authorities to temporarily shut down traffic ...

Blue Origin is one of two companies — Elon Musk’s SpaceX is the other — that NASA has hired to take astronauts from lunar orbit to the moon’s surface. The plan for Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander ...

Last week’s explosion of a New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida, was clearly a setback for Blue Origin and NASA, but it was a learning experience for safety officials looking to open up the ...

No personnel were harmed in the incident, the company said on social media, calling the explosion an ‘anomaly’ Nasa’s plans to build a lunar base and return humans to the moon in the next two years ...