The Justice Department on Friday released a new batch of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein as the transparency act mandated. These documents have allegations of torture by some of Epstein's ...

I grew up in the Dallas suburb of Lewisville when it had more gun racks than yoga mats. In elementary school, I was one of two black kids in the entire building. It was the early 1980s: faded ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

President Donald Trump floated a bizarre notion when he suggested an unnamed “they” could have “put in” things to the Epstein Files after the election he won in 2024. The president took questions from ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Pregnancy has long been framed as an evolutionary tug-of-war. The fetus presses for resources, while the mother mounts defenses to limit invasive placentation. A new study in PNAS challenges that view ...

What if I told you that social media isn’t just a chaotic swirl of memes, trends, and endless scrolling, but a carefully orchestrated battlefield where every post, like, and share is part of a larger ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

When I last left off with The Walten Files, I told you there was something else... something that deserved its own episode. Today we are talking about the tragedy that is hiding at the center of the ...

Some sci-fi scenarios depict robots as cold-hearted clankers eager to manipulate human stooges. But that’s not the only possible path for artificial intelligence. Humans have evolved emotions like ...

CNN’s Jake Tapper has flatly debunked President Donald Trump’s claim that his enemies may have planted damaging material about him in the the Jeffrey Epstein files, calling it “one of the most bizarre ...