For decades, neuroscientists have treated the brain as a locked box. They could measure the symptoms of psychiatric illness — the despair of depression, the racing thoughts of mania, the fragmentation of schizophrenia —...
In 2003, a Swedish philosopher named Nick Bostrom published a paper that would quietly reshape how some of the world's brightest minds think about reality itself. The argument was elegant and unsettling: if a sufficientl...
Ten days into the US-Israel military operation against Iran, Americans are feeling it at the pump. Gas prices have surged roughly 20% since joint airstrikes launched on February 28, with the national average for regular...
Samsung didn't just release a new phone this year. It may have reset expectations for what a flagship device can do. The Galaxy S26 Ultra, unveiled at Galaxy Unpacked on February 25 and releasing March 11, has already be...
Thirty years ago, two Game Boy cartridges — Pokémon Red and Green — launched in Japan with modest expectations. Today, Pokémon is the highest-grossing media franchise in history, worth an estimated $150 billion. The mile...
The most anticipated night in fashion has a theme — and it's one that leaves almost no creative limit. The 2026 Met Gala, set for May 4 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will center on the exhibition Costume Art, with a...
A 1989 Japanese animated film about a teenage witch and her talking cat is selling out IMAX theaters across North America in 2026. That's not a quirk. That's Studio Ghibli. Kiki's Delivery Service hits IMAX screens on Ma...
The generation that grew up on smartphones is now making a point of putting them down. "Going analogue" has emerged as one of TikTok's most counterintuitive viral trends of 2026 — a movement spreading across the very pla...
It started innocuously enough. Someone posted a throwback photo. Then a celebrity did the same. Then 37 million Instagram posts followed. "2026 is the new 2016" has become the defining viral trend of early this year — a...
Yoga represents perhaps India's most successful cultural export to the West. From relative obscurity in the 1960s when a few countercultural Americans encountered yoga through spiritual teachers and Eastern philosophy, i...
Delhi's groundwater levels have fallen approximately one meter per year for two decades—a decline that is measurable, inexorable, and unsustainable. Bangalore's aquifers are nearly depleted despite being a major metropol...
Virat Kohli's cricket career represents one of sport's most sustained examples of individual excellence achieving institutional dominance. From mercurial young batsman with technical flaws to disciplined master accumulat...
For the past fifteen years, development experts and policy makers have confidently predicted that India's Tier-2 cities—Pune, Surat, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Indore, Nagpur—would absorb India's relentless urbanization and be...
Delhi's air quality deteriorates into hazardous territory with seasonal regularity. During winter months, Air Quality Index readings frequently exceed 400—well into the "hazardous" range where outdoor activity becomes me...
