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The Truth Physics Can No Longer Ignore

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

Day 13 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Sea of Galaxies

Day 13 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Sea of Galaxies. The James Webb Space Telescope pointed its Near-Infrared Camera toward the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223 and captured this image of hundreds of galaxies at varying distances and of different sizes, shapes, and colors—showing only a small section of the cluster.

A Daring New Take on Shakespeare’s Most Famous Soliloquy

The film adaptation of Hamnet gives new meaning to “To be, or not to be.”

The View From Inside the AI Bubble

Secret parties, lavish buffets, and talks of annihilation at one of the largest AI-research conferences

'SNL' Knows Everything You’ve Been Up to This Year. Do You?

The show mocked prettily packaged year-end features, such as Spotify “Wrapped,” that spit data collected about consumers back at them.

‘The Sun Rises and Sets With Her, Man’

The director Michael Mann isn’t thought of as a romantic but the men of Heat, which turns 30 today, are fueled by their relationships.

Rob Reiner Was a Quiet Titan of Storytelling

The director and actor, who died yesterday, built a remarkable career that went far beyond his comic origins.

How YouTube Ate Podcasts and TV

Short-form video is taking over everything (including reading).

Day 15 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Turbulent Lagoon

Day 15 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Turbulent Lagoon. Back in 2018, to celebrate its 28th anniversary in space, scientists pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at the Lagoon Nebula, a roiling cloud of gas and dust about 4,000 light-years away, to capture this image, which shows just a small section of a much larger star-forming region.

Day 14 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Ripples of a Galactic Merger

Day 14 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Ripples of a Galactic Merger. The Hubble Space Telescope recently gathered this image of lenticular galaxy NGC 4753, about 60 million light-years away. Scientists believe this object to be the result of an earlier merging of two galaxies, which is still flattening and throwing off waves of dust lanes.

A Throwback Rom-Com About One Millennial Trying to Have It All

James L. Brooks’s Ella McCay is wacky and weird—but it doesn’t quite work.

Business and tech leaders discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by AI's widespread adoption

CNBC spoke with several business and tech leaders at the CONVERGE LIVE event in Singapore about the challenges and opportunities presented by the adoption of AI.