Digital technologies now occupy a central role in social connection, education, commerce, and health care. Yet growing evidence suggests that social media, algorithmic feeds, and AI systems may ...

On the Wednesday, March 18, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: A critically important source of water for seven western states, the Colorado River is now running out of water. What's the solution?

A study of adaptive immunity in sea lampreys — a type of jawless vertebrate from which jawed vertebrates diverged around 500 million years ago — has shown the evolution of a common solution to the ...

A look at some unexpected reasons why you may be out of breath. (Photo Credit: DigitalVision/Getty Images) If you feel winded without even breaking a sweat, heart or lung disease could be to blame, ...