This week we mark the country’s semiquincentennial – 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. The United States looks ...

From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...

Moon bases, living to 100 and (finally!) flying cars. What 2076 and our future will look like may be stranger than we expect.

Fourteen members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.

Can it do what it takes to give itself another 250 years? To improve its odds, the U.S. could draw on lessons from history — ...

When you think about the level of detail and labor that goes into a feature-length stop-motion film, it boggles the mind.

Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any ...

In the 1970s, American Fireworks, a family-run pyrotechnics company in Hudson, Ohio, used a “home run box” to offer quick and ...

From an artistic portrayal of the journey of Hmong refugees from Laos to Menomonie to an eye-catching image that captures the ...

On July 31, 1790, President George Washington affixed his elegant signature to a single piece of parchment. The short ...

USC is celebrating America's 250th anniversary with animated digital stamps honoring unsung heroes of computing. These stamps ...

Taika Waititi’s Sony Pictures adaptation of Ishiguro’s novel hits theaters October 23, 2026, and every technology the book imagined is real. Vision Transformers process images as Klara does — in ...