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The New York Times released its first word-free game on Monday. It's called Tiles. Tiles is a color and pattern matching game with tilesets — grids of patterned squares — that challenges players to select the longest possible sequence of tile pairs with shared elements, like this: The game has different tilesets named after cities…

The scissors snip together slowly making that unmistakable crunching sound, and 10 inches of hair that I spent two years growing are now gone. But the strands didn't just fall to the ground to get swept up and thrown away. Instead, my hair is now on its way to Children with Hair Loss, a nonprofit…

Some Twitter users noticed Wednesday that the social media platform automatically associates the phrase "Enemy of the People" with the official New York Times Twitter account, a seemingly strange phenomenon that's fanning the flames of speculation in the current overheated political climate. In fact, Twitter is not just associating "Enemy of the People" with the…

The sun's corona constantly breathes wispy strings of hot, charged particles into space — a phenomenon we call the solar wind. Every now and then, however, those breaths become full-blown burps. Perhaps as often as once every hour or two, according to a study in the February issue of the journal JGR: Space Physics, the…

A gigantic solar storm hit Earth about 2,600 years ago, one about 10 times stronger than any solar storm recorded in the modern day, a new study finds. These findings suggest that such explosions recur regularly in Earth's history, and could wreak havoc if they were to hit now, given how dependent the world has…

Does it ever seem like you're invited to an awful lot of summer birthday gatherings? For good reason. In the United States, most births occur between June and early November. Count back nine months, and you'll see that places most conceptions in the fall and winter. What's going on? Is the crisp autumn air, or…

Artist's illustration of Planet Nine, a hypothetical world that some scientists think lurks undiscovered in the far outer solar system. Credit: R. Hurt (IPAC)/Caltech There could be a planet hiding out on the distant frontiers of our solar system. And astronomers have published new details about what it probably looks like, if it really exists.…

By several accounts, Elizabeth Holmes carefully crafted and maintained a persona while heading up her blood-testing startup Theranos — including adopting a distinctively deep voice that former employees suspect she fabricated altogether. Holmes' quirks as a leader of the now-dissolved Theranos have been well-documented: She methodically designed a persona borrowing from Silicon Valley elite, such…

In the southwestern province of China lies the city of Chengdu, home to the largest building in the world and one of the busiest international airports. It's also the site of a rare treasure — the giant panda, which has teetered on extinction for decades. Many of the pandas found in zoos around the world…

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