If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

Under the directive of an intelligence program, the U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers to identify and arrest those accused of suspicious travel patterns. License plates are ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

“Understanding U.S. patent litigation requires looking past raw filing numbers to the interplay of technology, strategic enforcement and the intrinsic strength of patents.” Patent litigation trends ...

The University of Arizona is terminating its Writing Skills Improvement Program, a move that closes the door for students to receive instruction from specialists with professional degrees in writing, ...

Alice Walker. Charles Bukowski. Louise Erdrich. Juan Felipe Herrera. These are just some of the authors who received a Creative Writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts over the ...

Alex Kingsbury is a contributing writer at The New York Times and a former member of the Globe editorial board. Appointments always start with an earnest apology. “I’m so sorry,” I’ll hear, seconds ...

On Friday afternoon, writers who applied for the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2026 Creative Writing Fellowships received an email from the NEA saying that the program had been canceled. The annual ...

First-year students and aspiring filmmakers. Beginner poets and published authors. Songwriters. STEM students, part-time students. Working professionals hoping to put stories to paper. English and ...