Three Iran women soccer players decide to go home not seek asylum

Three members of the Iranian women's soccer team who had been granted asylum in Australia have instead decided to return home ...

French local vote gauges far-right strength before presidential ballot

French voters headed to the polls on Sunday (March 15) to elect their ​mayors in a closely watched ballot seen as a test of ...
MIT Technology Review

The Download: Pokémon Go to train world models, and the US-China race to find aliens

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of ...

Retired Air Force major general missing for weeks once led Wright-Patterson, an Ohio base steeped in decades of UFO theories

Wright-Patterson has played a central role in the US military’s real investigations into mysterious objects in the sky — from Cold War-era research programs to efforts to study what the government now ...

A Never-Ending Conspiracy Theory in Remote Alaska

Many people who don’t believe one conspiracy theory about that station—known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research ...
The New Yorker

“Project Hail Mary”: In Space, No One Should Hear Your Glib Jokes

In Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel, Ryan Gosling’s star power fuels an unlikely tale of far-flung friendship.