S.P. Chopra, the revered patriarch of the feuding clan in Karan Mahajan’s “The Complex” (Viking, 448 pages, $30), was a framer of India’s constitution and a cabinet minister in the government of ...

A foreign hacker unknowingly compromised a cache of the FBI’s documents on Jeffrey Epstein three years ago and was so disgusted by what they saw in the files that they threatened to report them to the ...

Authorities in Abu Dhabi are dealing with a fire that broke out in one of the facilities within the Ruwais Industrial Complex, resulting from a drone attack, with no injuries recorded so far. The ...

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is acquiring Astral, a startup that develops and integrates established open-source programs for Python into the Codex platform. Both companies announced this on Thursday. OpenAI ...

In 2013, when people still nursed high hopes for the salvific effects of the Internet and cancellation was a fate reserved for poorly rated TV shows, a private citizen with a hundred and seventy ...

For decades, scientists have believed that complex life began when two very different microbes joined forces, eventually giving rise to plants, animals, and fungi. But one major puzzle remained: how ...

Dramatic new discoveries in the ancient Egytptian burial ground. A special report produced with Smithsonian Channel Jo Marchant; Photographs by Roger Anis Beneath the ruins of the Bubasteion temple, ...