West Virginia Coach Bob Huggins Uses Homophobic Slur on Radio Show
West Virginia University said it was reviewing and would later address the homophobic comments that its men’s basketball coach, the Hall of Famer Bob Huggins,...
Vida Blue Was a Baseball Comet
The bright lights would come soon enough. On that May night in 1970, at the old ballpark at the confluence of the Des Moines and...
Bears, Binoculars and Bucket-List Birds: A 15-Day Tour in Ecuador
We spent five blissful days at Sani Lodge, which is owned and operated by the Indigenous Sani tribe. We watched the sun rise over the...
Get Ready to See More of the Northern Lights
In the southern hemisphere, aurora australis, or the southern lights, are typically visible from Antarctica, Australia and south of Argentina. Their visibility has also expanded....
The Women Who Are Giving Dating Apps the Summer Off
Divai Brown, a 39-year-old lawyer from Harlem, has lived in Dublin for about 15 months, working in financial regulations, and loves it. “I don’t have...
Theodor Diener, Who Discovered the Tiniest of Infectious Agents, Dies at 102
Finding something infinitesimally tiny is never easy. But it’s much harder when the searcher doesn’t know what to look for. Theodor Diener, a plant pathologist...
Hammer Museum Chief Curator Connie Butler Chosen to Lead MoMA PS1
MoMA PS1 in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City has chosen Connie Butler, the longtime chief curator of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles,...
The Land Beneath This Stadium Once Was Theirs. They Want It Back.
LOS ANGELES — Standing less than a mile from Dodger Stadium on a recent Saturday afternoon, Vincent Montalvo could hear the roar of the crowd...
Overlooked No More: Alice Ball, Chemist Who Created a Treatment for Leprosy
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. On New...
KAWS Wins $900,000 in Lawsuit Over Counterfeit Artworks
The artist KAWS will soon be $900,000 dollars richer after winning a lawsuit against two Singapore-based companies and a man named Dylan Joy An Leong Yi...
Overlooked No More: James Sakoda, Whose Wartime Internment Inspired a Social Science Tool
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Unlike most...
Ancient Bronze Owl Damaged By Visitor to Minneapolis Institute of Art
An ancient artifact was damaged when a visitor tripped at the Minneapolis Institute of Art last month, according to the StarTribune. The Pillsbury Owl, a...
He Saw ‘Greatness’ in the Lakers When They Were at Their Worst
You’d have to look closely or you’d miss the homemade sign nailed to a telephone pole outside the Lakers’ practice facility in El Segundo, Calif....
Who Will Have the Last Word on the Universe?
The End is coming, in maybe 100 billion years. Is it too soon to start freaking out? “There will be a last sentient being, there...