Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast prehistoric ocean. Fossils recovered from this region over ...

On Tuesday, WIRED published details of ICE’s planned expansion into more than 150 office spaces across the United States, including 54 specific addresses. If you haven’t read that yet, you should, not ...

Workers at the Social Security Administration have been told to share information about in-person appointments with agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, WIRED has learned. “If ICE comes in ...

This piece first appeared in the Front Matter section of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A small but fierce jawbone sits in Argentina’s natural science museum in Buenos Aires. Six ...

Last Friday, when I texted Emily Dawn Long to ask what I should wear to the party she was throwing in SoHo that night, she replied with a simple brief: “Things ur down to sweat in.” The party, dubbed ...

You’re reading The Sporting Scene, Louisa Thomas’s weekly look at the world of sports. Four years ago, at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Alysa Liu, a U.S. figure skater, seemed happy. She said she was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Critically endangered leatherback turtles are once again building nests along Nicaragua's Pacific shoreline ...

On this Presidents’ Day, President Donald J. Trump honors the enduring spirit of American leadership by reflecting on the extraordinary progress achieved in his second term. Under his decisive ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

The American figure skating duo of Evan Bates and Madison Chock had to settle for the silver medal in ice dancing at the 2026 Winter Olympics, and there was some controversy surrounding their free ...

Read more of Slate’s 2026 Olympics coverage here. On Wednesday in Milan, French figure skaters Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron narrowly won gold in their first Olympics as an ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Last week, a federal judge issued a ...