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We’ve seen it a hundred times in the World Cup: A player misses a shot and his hands immediately go to the top of his head. Why? Psychology has the answer. | Continue reading
Trade sanctions. Withdrawal of military aid. The Trump administration used both to try to block a measure that was considered uncontroversial and embraced by countries around the world. | Continue reading
Gossamer strands of spider silk serve as balloons to carry spiders far afield. | Continue reading
Beijing is putting billions of dollars behind facial recognition and other technologies to track and control its citizens. | Continue reading
The agency plans to publish a new regulation Tuesday that would restrict the kinds of scientific studies the agency can use when it develops policies. | Continue reading
Rob Wielgus was one of America’s pre-eminent experts on large carnivores. Then he ran afoul of the enemies of the wolf. | Continue reading
Few jobs would appear less prone to automation than fashion industry taste-making. But artificial intelligence is undeterred. | Continue reading
The Environmental Protection Agency will notify makers of glider trucks, which use engines that do not have modern emissions controls, that they won’t be punished for increasing production. | Continue reading
Samba TV, which has deals to put its software on sets made by about a dozen TV brands, uses viewing data to make personalized show recommendations. But that’s not the big draw for advertisers. | Continue reading
A man and a woman were in critical condition in southern England after falling ill a few miles from where a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned in March. | Continue reading
The contemporary trolley, introduced in 2016, takes visitors to an arts district, an entertainment district and a happy state of mind. | Continue reading
The Danes, who have struggled to integrate non-Western families, are getting tough: From age 1, immigrant children will receive mandatory instruction in “Danish culture.” | Continue reading
Many of the practices for which it has been criticized are common in the industry. | Continue reading
Like a modern version of a medieval minstrel, a singer named Jess Magic is helping A-list entrepreneurs get in touch with their inner child in private “songversations.” | Continue reading
The gap between places doing well and those that aren’t is widening, and that’s a challenge for people trying to shape national policy. | Continue reading
The court ruled that government workers cannot be required to pay for collective bargaining, which could cost public unions tens of millions of dollars. | Continue reading
A meeting in May was meant for a discussion of foreign meddling in this year’s midterm elections. But some tech officials left frustrated. | Continue reading
The city offers a case study of how high housing costs alter the economics of everything else, including restaurant service. | Continue reading
We could take a big step forward by distinguishing free speech from just access to the media. | Continue reading
The bond market’s yield curve is perilously close to predicting a recession — something it has done with surprising accuracy — and it’s become a big topic on Wall Street. | Continue reading
A monthslong regimen can compensate for what eye muscles no longer can do. | Continue reading
Amazon has introduced dozens of private label goods in the past year, and is using the power of its global marketplace to steer shoppers to its own products. | Continue reading
Internet-connected home devices that are marketed as the newest conveniences are also being used to harass, monitor and control. | Continue reading
They hope to fight the thriving black markets for illegally logged timber. | Continue reading
Micron, an American chip maker, says its designs were swiped to help a new Chinese plant. Washington sees a larger pattern, fueling tensions with Beijing. | Continue reading
How much would you pay to reinvent your life? | Continue reading
A branch of A.I. called deep learning has transformed computer performance in tasks like vision and speech. But meaning, reasoning and common sense remain elusive. | Continue reading
Mozilla redesigned its browser to take on Google’s Chrome. Firefox now has strong privacy features and is as fast as Chrome. | Continue reading
In communities across the country, the billionaire conservatives are waging a sophisticated fight against new rail projects and bus routes. | Continue reading
Can we expand our ideas of what personalized medicine could mean? | Continue reading
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s longtime editorial cartoonist just lost his job. | Continue reading
American officials cite blocked websites and other limits on information as bad for foreign companies doing business in the vast market. | Continue reading
Personal ratings brought down Asian-American applicants’ chances of being admitted, according to an analysis filed by a group suing the school for bias. | Continue reading
It’s a scary thing to be the target of online vigilantes who believe in their own righteousness. | Continue reading
Seeing how microbes snatch new genetic material from their environment could help in the fight against antibiotic resistance. | Continue reading
Speaking in Singapore after meeting with Kim Jong-un of North Korea, President Trump answered questions about Otto Warmbier, war games and the video his team made for Mr. Kim. | Continue reading
The media industry is competitive enough. The Justice Department should not stand in the way of companies cutting costs and merging just to survive. | Continue reading
Scientists may need to bypass a cell’s cancer defenses in order to successfully edit its DNA. The finding raises questions about gene-editing advances. | Continue reading
Craig Newmark’s website for classified ads siphoned off more than $5 billion from the newspaper industry, according to one study. But he says his donation is not motivated by guilt. | Continue reading
Is suicide the deadly result of a deep psychological condition — or a fleeting impulse brought on by opportunity? | Continue reading
John Lasseter had been on leave since November, citing what he called “missteps” that made employees feel uncomfortable. He will be a consultant for Disney until the end of the year. | Continue reading
A celebrated N.B.A. executive is out of a job after someone who loves him seems to have gotten a little carried away. | Continue reading
Federal prosecutors seized the records as part of an investigation into leaks of classified information to the news media by a former Senate aide. | Continue reading
The illnesses in China have broadened a crisis that started in 2016, when American Embassy employees and their family members in Cuba began getting sick after hearing strange noises. | Continue reading
A week experiencing the e-scooter craze convinced our columnist that the devices aren’t an urban menace or a harbinger of the apocalypse. (In fact, they are pretty great.) | Continue reading
In his new book, “How to Change Your Mind,” Pollan turns to psychedelics, their history and their promise. | Continue reading
Google, Internet search company with reputation as best way to find things on Internet, faces number of challenges; its very success as nation's sixth most popular Internet site raises question of whether Yahoo will see it as too much of rival to continue using it as its search e … | Continue reading