If Eleven survived the Stranger Things finale, the show’s ending may be hiding an escape hatch. Here are the strongest theories, Kali’s illusion angle, and plausible next plotlines.

James Hay receives funding from the Wellcome Trust (grant 225001/Z/22/Z). The NHS is facing severe pressure this winter as flu cases surge earlier than usual, with some calling it “super flu”. Here’s ...

Every Black Friday reveals how consumers search, compare, and decide. This year added something new: a real-world test of how AI models interpret commerce under true demand. So we ran a structured ...

This is part two of a two-part interview. At 86, Pali Summerlin is an author and wisdom teacher known for her deep insights into emotional wounding and the liberation of limiting self-concepts. She ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Very few serious experts think today’s AI models are conscious, but many regular people feel differently about the bots, which are designed to foster emotional connection to keep engagement up. Users ...

The College Football Playoff picture could remain stable or descend into chaos depending on the results of rivalry weekend. Potential coaching changes, such as Lane Kiffin at Mississippi, could ...

Ten years ago, I would have turned my nose up at the idea that we already understood how to get machines to think. In the 2010s, my team at Google Research was working on a wide variety of ...

For anyone looking at the wreckage of America’s legal and political landscape and wondering how we got here, it’s tempting to daydream about all sorts of counterfactuals. What if President Joe Biden ...

Anyone who has eaten near the beach has probably had a seagull swoop in to claim their lunch at some point. Now, scientists at the University of Exeter have figured out exactly how to keep those ...

HANS KOLLER FROM FREDONIA, PA: In a recent Asked and Answered you said the 1979 Steelers Super Bowl XIV team was the first and only team to win a Super Bowl with no players who had played for another ...

Travel plans for millions of Americans could come to a screeching halt this month as more flights get canceled during the longest government shutdown in US history. More than 1,000 Friday flights were ...