The Present

Learn all about mechanical design, product development, material selection, manufacturing, and so much more.

Using machine-learning technology, the genealogy company My Heritage enables users to animate static images of their relatives.

The more you donate, the greater your chances.

For democracy to prosper in the long term, we need more people to reach higher levels of education.

It’s highly effective.

One bill hopes to repeal the crime of selling sex and expand social services; the other would legalize the entire sex trade.

Beyond making up 70% of the world’s health workers, women researchers have been at the cutting edge of coronavirus research.

By 2050, there may be more plastic than fish in the sea.

Their goal is a digital model of the Earth that depicts climate change in all of its complexity.

In May 2018, the city of Paris set an ambition to be carbon-neutral by 2050.

While not the first such minister, the loneliness epidemic in Japan will make this one the hardest working.

These DIY learning kits focus on topics like coding, robotics, and AI, and are on sale for as low as $41.99.

This female-founded brand made Forbes 30 Under 30 list this year for its diverse, authentic, and affordable stock photography.

The debate over whether or not there is a place for political correctness in modern society is not always black and white.

A warming Arctic Circle could be responsible for bursts of cold weather in the south.

This real estate training covers property management, construction cost estimation, social housing, and much more.

Did America’s collective mental health get worse (and then better) after the first COVID-19 lockdown?

7 scholars and legal experts dissect what you can and can’t say in America.

Some mysteries take generations to unfold.

“Deepfakes” and “cheap fakes” are becoming strikingly convincing — even ones generated on freely available apps.

New research identifies 16 different COVID-19 personality types and the lessons we can learn from this global pandemic.

The space agency describes the process of landing rovers on Mars as “seven minutes of terror.”

New research from MIT is unintuitive but could lead to a better system.

Older people are in grave danger of being left behind.

The best time to start was yesterday, the second best is now.

The platform experiments with letting users decide what content needs flagging.

Inequality in wealth, gender, and race grew to unprecedented levels across the world, according to OxFam report.

There is no going “back to normal.”

A new study casts doubt on previous research showing that emotional well-being plateaus at an income of $75,000 per year.

Could we have predicted COVID-19 through social media trends?