Here’s what I want Samsung’s next flagships to do differently

I used to look forward to Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event with excitement, waiting to see where the company was going to push its phones to next. But over the past few years, that enthusiasm waned and eventually turned into skepticism. With the launch of the Galaxy S26 series, I feel particularly underwhelmed. I’ve come to […]

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Art Meets Science at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory – State of the Planet

Carson Witte, September Arctic Sea Ice Volume Change. The layers in this sculpture depict September Arctic sea ice volume for each year since the start of the satellite record in 1979. Two dimensions show mean areal extent, while the third dimension shows mean ice thickness. How do we make sense of the world around us?

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Shonen Jump’s Biggest New Action Anime May Be Dead Before Its First Episode Even Airs

One of Shōnen Jump’s most impressive new series is finally getting the anime adaptation it deserves, but it might be dead before it even comes to the screen. Kagurabachi looks like the best shōnen to lead the latest generation, but there’s one factor standing in between it and glory: its animation studio. Kagurabachi wasn’t able

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Texas’s Senate Primary Has Already Made History—and It’s Not Over Yet

Democratic nominee James Talarico is getting national media attention, but the real story is sky-high voter turnout, even amid GOP bids to suppress balloting Ad Policy Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico at a March 2 rally in Houston (Danielle Villasana / Getty Images) Texas has now been home to the most expensive general election Senate

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Weekly poll results: the Galaxy S26 and S26 Ultra have a fighting chance, the S26+ is dead in the water

The Galaxy S25 series outsold the S24 series, which in turn had outpaced the S23 series a year prior. In short, everything was going great for the S-series. But will this year end its winning streak? Last week’s poll certainly casts shadows of doubt over the success of the new trio. The

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If you don’t play, you can’t win: Desert Hearts…

Forty years on, the film is often branded ​‘the lesbian Brokeback Mountain’. Though it’s a rather lazy point of comparison (not least because it predates both Ang Lee’s film and Annie Proulx’s short story by some years) the film’s relationship to the Western is notable. Deitch based her film’s visual language on cowboy and horse photography,

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A Conflict Without Reason Has Become a Dangerous Holy War

Lacking a clear rationale for the attack on Iran, Trumpists are increasingly talking like crusaders. Ad Policy Screenshot from a White House video showing pastors praying over Donald Trump in the Oval Office on March 5, 2026. (Dan Scavino / X) Donald Trump has often praised William McKinley, a White House predecessor who shared the

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