This body he has put together is not an accident. Fabiano Caruana is, in fact, an American grandmaster in chess, the No. 2 player in the world.
Taking a complaint to customer service can be maddening. No one wants to deal with endless phone trees, outsourced representatives working from inflexible scripts, automated responses or chatbots.
Our generation gap is a flight of stairs.
Being a writer is all about expressing your unique perspective with feeling and originality, not about having a huge vocabulary or getting published, says author Jacqueline Woodson. She shares a little of what she’s learned in the process of writing 30+ books.
What dogs ate can reveal clues about 12,000 year old lifestyles.
Inside his machine that turns charitable and political contributions into paydays.
Being a prop master requires immense research, hyperniche handiwork, an obsessive’s flare for detail, and a tolerance for people overlooking all that work. Oh, and a big truck.
The biggest stars in the world are pledging their brains. Young players are leaving the game with their destinies unfulfilled. The stories they tell spark fear and raise questions. And the science hasn't even begun to provide answers.
Her life is now the subject of an upcoming film starring Tessa Thompson, and a new book.
Writers from the 1920s to prime you for the 2020s.
Without a creative reimagining of nature, a conceiving of hypotheses for what might be going on behind the perceived surface of phenomena, there can be no science at all.
All across the country, GameStop stores are closing. But in the late 2000s, the stores served as social hubs for teens forging their online and offline identities.
“What were you thinking?” is a past-focused question. Instead, focus on the future.
My kid is a wreck at school drop-off. What should I do?
From human rights abuses to environmental destruction, crystal mining harms more than it heals.
Inside the trial of Gnaeus Plancius, more than 2,000 years before the #MeToo movement.
Some people never grow out of conditional relationships. They hold onto the belief that love and acceptance are contingent on some benefit they’re providing to people, some condition that they must fulfill.
This mismatch creates a child-care crisis between 3 and 5 p.m. that has parents scrambling for options.
What the neuroscientist is discovering is both humbling and frightening him.
Thoughts on resisting the defeatism of easy despair, and what victory really means for movements of social change.
What a restless coffee drinker learned from going to circadian-rhythm rehab (a tent in the woods).
How restaurants use their menus to influence what you're having for dinner.
This is how to schedule your workday to get the most done.
“She plays everything as if she was born to play it, as if it was written for her.”
From the French Revolution to the 2020 presidential race.
From the rich bowls of boat noodles to the crazy charcuterie boards to the spicy strawberry sotol, one thing is clear: Texas’ oft-skipped food destination is no longer skippable.
How she became the league's 10th current female assistant coach, and the youngest at just 26 years old.
‘Errand paralysis’ might be the most boring and overwhelming anxiety of our age. How did we get so swamped?
An unlikely gang of mystery-solvers set out to change the world.
While studies have long focused on bullying’s impact on the body and nervous system, research suggests it may affect victims’ brain structure, too.
What ails the world's most popular garment of all—and one process that could help cure some of the ills plaguing their production.
Meet the Finnish software engineer who developed ‘Snake’ for the late-’90s Nokia 6110 — launching a $100 billion industry.
Thomas has moved from black nationalism to the right. But his beliefs about racism, and our ability to solve it, remain the same.
My husband’s struggle with postpartum depression was my struggle, too.
What makes men happy?
She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.
What you do can make you extremely likable, but so can what you don’t choose to do.
Sure, the wilderness is beautiful. But it can also frighten you out of your mind.
Sometimes a little gossip gets spun out of hand and no one realizes until it’s too late.
Powering through your work week after week can cause some serious tunnel vision and prevent you from accomplishing what you’re capable of.
An experiment in controlling how much of Scrabble is luck.
When people find out about my job, they tell me it sounds like the coolest thing in the world. Then they ask me about my cholesterol.
Richard Magarey has facial hair, pigtails, a closetful of schoolgirl outfits and an endless supply of energy. In Tokyo, he became the world’s unlikeliest death metal superstar.
How an unsung heroine established a new field of science and helped defeat the Nazis with pencil, paper, and perseverance.
I learned a lot, but not all of it stuck.
Tracing history’s most elusive holy relic will lead you to these real places.
You never see your friends at home alone in their pajamas, watching The X Factor, and feeling sorry for themselves.
Once a year, millions of women leave their homes around Kerala to give a sweet offering of rice for their goddess, Attukal Amma.
Apps that teach people to be better partners have faced skepticism online. But some say they work.
"I don’t believe in ghosts, but maybe I do, just a little."
For a strange time in the 1930s, a son and father both appeared in headlines of New York City newspapers, the youngster for throwing touchdowns, the father for murder.