Cicadas are, in fact, spectacular bugs. Although they have tiny insect brains, they can count and sense temperature; males ...

This is what happens after four years under an insurrectionist president. It will get much worse if he gets eight.

There’s a good case to be made that speed limits are too high on city streets. Speeding was a factor in almost a third of all ...

Joshua Keating is a senior correspondent at Vox covering foreign policy and world news with a focus on the future of international conflict. He is the author of the 2018 book, Invisible Countries ...

AI-powered apps may be able to use your data (including selfies) to predict your current mental state. Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Celia Ford is a Future Perfect Fellow focusing on the ...

Finding the best ways to do good. Jonathan An tries to ignore the hype about new life-extension treatments, but it’s caught up to him anyway. He has heard the gospel of the longevity influencers ...

Bambie Thug, Ireland’s entry to Eurovision this year, calls themself a “ouija popstar” and a witch. Jens Büttner/Picture Alliance via Getty Images Alex Abad-Santos is a senior correspondent ...

A New York case against former President Donald Trump, once considered the least important of the four criminal suits he faces, could now be the only one to have a direct impact ahead of the election.

Israel’s operation in Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza that houses more than a million displaced Palestinians, may have finally forced the Biden administration to do something it has been ...

A December 2023 photo shows a Palestinian girl injured as a result of the Israeli bombing on Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Saher Alghorra/Middle East images/AFP via Getty Images Sigal ...

Rachel M. Cohen is a senior reporter for Vox covering social policy. She focuses on housing, schools, homelessness, child care, and abortion rights, and has been reporting on these issues for more ...

Despite increasing H5N1 flu concerns, self-interest appears to be trumping the common good as the world negotiates a pandemic treaty. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Dylan Scott is a senior ...