Conan O'Brien breaks his silence on the death of his friends Rob and Michele Reiner, who were stabbed to death hours after ...

Novelist and critic Smith (Feel Free) brings an incisive eye and keen wit to art, music, fiction, politics, and more in these wide-ranging essays. Whether analyzing the misogyny faced by female muses; ...

Before the advent of antibiotics in the 1920s, bacteriophages represented our best bet at fending off life-threatening bacteria. Fast-forward a century, and the looming specter of antimicrobial ...

A new study shows that generative AI is already being used to "bring back" the dead, as entertainment icons, as political witnesses, and as everyday companions for grieving families. Tracing cases of ...

An iOS app called “Are you Dead?” is going viral for its morbid name and brutally straightforward concept. The app presents a big green button, tapping which tells your emergency contacts that you’re ...

A mobile app called Dead or Alive has gone viral on Chinese social media platform Weibo, drawing widespread attention for its focus on safety for people living alone. Developed by three post-1995-born ...

On New Year’s Eve 1963, a 16-year-old Bob Weir heard the plucking of a banjo off in the distance. The teenager followed the sound down a Palo Alto street to a music shop where Jerry Garcia was playing ...

Stranger Things fans -- including myself -- are all wondering one thing about the series finale that dropped on New Year's Eve: Is a certain character dead or alive? WARNING: STRANGER THINGS FINALE ...

I always get a bit uneasy around zombie movies that seem to relish killing zombies. There are exceptions like “Zombieland,” but too often the genre feels completely indifferent to the idea that the ...

The Xbox consoles have gone through a similar trajectory, with titles like Halo: Combat Evolved becoming massive hits partly because they helped launch their respective console. Another such success ...