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This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual destinations.

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Apple has rolled out the sixth developer beta of iOS 26, alongside test versions for iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, macOS and other platforms, as the company edges closer to the software’s expected public ...

Why is it so difficult to know how much damage U.S. strikes did to the underground Fordo nuclear site? For the same reason it was so hard to hit in the first place. By James Glanz, Samuel Granados, ...

The annual clock of the seasons—winter, spring, summer, autumn—is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows ...

Paris Hilton and her pups are going on a brand new adventure! The multi-hyphenate, 44, and her media company, 11:11 Media, are partnering with HappyNest Entertainment and 9 Story Media Group on a new ...

Scientists have pinpointed brain activity related to inner speech—the silent monolog in people's heads—and successfully decoded it on command with up to 74% accuracy. "This is the first time we've ...

Big Tech's foray into nuclear power continues as Google announced the site of its first nuclear reactor today, as part of its 2024 deal with startup Kairos Power. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, will be home to ...

Chinese animated feature Nobody was number one at the local box office over the weekend, crossing the 1-billion-yuan ($138.5 million) milestone as it continues rewriting records for 2D animation in ...

In what ranks among the most noteworthy real estate transactions in Nashville history, about 47 acres of East Bank property sitting near the Cumberland River have sold for $245 million. According to a ...