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Forecasting is both art and science, reliant on both rigor and luck—but you can develop a mindset that anticipates and plans ahead.

The sun cycles between periods of low and high activity over 11 years. The maximum can bring stunning light displays and offer NASA scientists unique research opportunities.

Living rooms are one of the most important spaces in a home. Here are the 2025 trends to keep an eye out for.

You can tell Instagram to forget what it thinks about you. The Meta app now allows you to fix your feed with just a couple clicks.

Leading Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza talks about the “surreal” experience of sudden freedom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero used gladiators’ physiques not to celebrate the republic’s valiant heroes, but to deride their bloated muscles as the embodiment of amoral tyranny.

A recent report by the USDA shows a decline of Black farms and producers, but a slight increase in new farmers.

The vernacular of deprivation, control, and aspirational containment that pervaded the pop culture of the ‘90s and 2000s.

You’d need a pretty big drill to make it through Earth’s crust.

The whole movie is a love letter to language.