As reading declines, fragments of the literary past float to the cultural surface like corpses after a shipwreck. Complex thought survives in a motto: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ...

The phrase “Time is a flat circle” often refers to how the manic post-pandemic news cycle makes comprehension of the recent past impossible. A similarly dazed bafflement is explored in W. David Marx’s ...

Tommy Egan (Joseph Sikora) will go to extremes to get what he wants. The sixth episode of the third and final season of "Power Book IV: Force" will air on Starz on Friday, Dec. 12. Egan is steadfast ...

• US and elsewhere: Watch on Disney Plus in 2026 (date TBC) • Away from home: Use a VPN such as NordVPN to watch your usual service from anywhere "The War Between the Land and the Sea" is the latest ...

The popular theory that Stranger Things will ultimately include time travel is not new; it certainly didn’t originate with Stranger Things 5. Show producer and director Shawn Levy said the show would ...

Weather permitting, SpaceX Falcon 9 may be visible in the sky beyond Cape Canaveral, Florida, after liftoff. Early morning and nighttime launches can offer unique photo opportunities as the rocket ...

In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

Astronauts Tom Stafford (left) and Wally Schirra (right) demonstrating with two model space crafts during an interview in the 1960s Donald Uhrbrock / Getty Images On December 15, 1965, NASA’s mission ...

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly more than that for our moon, posing potential challenges for future crewed ...

In a hard year—and when, recently, have we had one we’d consider easy?—books can be a lifeline and a balm, a place to retreat and regain our grounding. Among the many entertaining, delightful, ...