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The January transfer window has closed – and now it’s time to assess the business done by Premier League clubs. Who has bought themselves a bargain? And who has made a bad investment? Have your say with our interactive swiper…
Most of the 22 million people who reportedly use Fitbits or other fitness trackers probably aren’t thinking about what their daily jog or morning walk to work might mean for international security. But a recent, startling revelation about what people’s…
If you want to know how the opioid epidemic got so out of control, it’s hard to do better than this statistic: Between 2006 and 2016, out-of-state drug companies shipped nearly 21 million opioid painkillers to two pharmacies in Williamson,…
In September, Stanford researcher Michal Kosinski published a preprint of a paper that made an outlandish claim: The profile pictures we upload to social media and dating websites can be used to predict our sexual orientation. Kosinski, a Polish psychologist…
Nieu-Bethesda is far away from most places. It was the last village in South Africa to get electricity, in 1991, and it still doesn’t have a gas station or an A.T.M. Ringed by mountains, it feels like the sort of…
With the New York Philharmonic taking the weekend off at Lincoln Center, New York concertgoers seeking the comfort of massed orchestral sound should consider two other entertainments, both of which take place on Saturday evening—and each of which features a…
