Today's NYT Mini Crossword is live, and Wednesday's grid brings a timely environmental theme with Earth Day connections.

Fantasy baseball analyst Scott Pianowski takes a look at the state of the reliever position after the first month of the ...

A Utah Valley University student hosts a Rubik's cube competition to raise money for a local preschool for autistic students ...

NYT Mini Crossword April 14, 2026 features a quick 5x5 puzzle with a social theme built around PARTY FOUL and simple wordplay ...

Most people will never sit inside a problem-solving court or see how those courts operate over time. The work does not unfold ...

NASA has launched four astronauts on a pioneering journey around the moon—the Artemis II mission. Follow our coverage here. Despite the moon being so nearby, we know surprisingly little about it with ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Visible to the naked eye in the constellation Cassiopeia, the star γ Cas has puzzled astrophysicists for half a century. It emits X-rays of an intensity and temperature incompatible with what one ...

After 30 months of fast-paced innovation in quantum algorithms, six research groups are hoping to hit paydirt. But there can be only one big winner—if there is a winner at all. I’m standing in front ...

“A FASCINATING BUT elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.” That is how “The International Dictionary ...

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