When the Los Angeles Dodgers won the sweepstakes for Roki Sasaki this offseason, they landed the prized international arm of the offseason and a generational young talent. The 23-year-old entered MLB ...

The arrival of DeepSeek, an open generative artificial intelligence platform reportedly built on less than $6 million, is only the latest development in the march toward AI democratization. If the low ...

Many sports call their victors world champions, but there's nothing in sports like the World Cup's true global nature. And, fittingly for its name, the 2026 edition of the FIFA tournament is bigger ...

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The oyster debate reveals something fascinating about how we draw ethical lines and what veganism really means to each of us.

The upcoming World Cup promises to be bigger than ever before, with more teams, more host countries and more matches, and on Friday, soccer fans will get their first taste of what it will take for ...

Art students work for years to learn to create good portraits that capture the likeness of a subject. Even among trained artists, it takes a special talent to draw faces accurately. This problem ...

President-elect Trump is taking the oath of office in Washington, though - the day, though, it is not unfolding as originally planned. LEILA FADEL, HOST: Yeah, the inauguration has moved indoors ...

In the future, Britain is partly submerged by rising seas – but what do people remember of the past? NPR's Scott Simon talks to British author Ian McEwan about his new novel, "What We Can Know." Ian ...

Imagine the impact of climate change is irreversible, and decades of flooding, famine, pandemics and war have upended life on earth. That world is explored in Ian McEwan's new novel, “What We Can Know ...