A wild boar and its piglet rest in a pile of dirt. It’s an awful feeling: Damp with sweat, your skin sticks to the sheets as you lie awake, seemingly for hours, in a bedroom that’s just too hot.  Excessive heat is indeed bad for sleep. It disrupts our body’s natural cool-down process that helps us sleep. But luckily for many of us, we can crank up the AC or turn on a fan.  Wild animals don’t have those luxuries.  A pair of new studies on mammals in Europe shows that extreme heat impairs their sleep, too, often significantly so. Wild boars in the Czech Republic, for example, slep ..read more

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - MAY 29: A man sells latex masks with the faces of the President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum of 'Sigamos Haciendo Historia' coalition during the closing event of the campaign at the Zócalo on May 29, 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico. According to the Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) over 100 million people are allowed to vote on the 2024 Presidential Election in Mexico. Claudia Sheinbaum of the Sigamos Haciendo Historia coalition, Xochitl Galvez of Fuerza y Corazón por México coalition and Jorge Alvarez Maynez of Movi ..read more

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 15: Billie Eilish performs onstage during "Hit Me Hard And Soft" Album Release Listening Party at Barclays Center on May 15, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for ABA) The recent epic drama between Kendrick Lamar and Drake may have made the brutal diss track trendy again, but in the pop realm, indirect shade-throwing seems to be the order of the day. When the clash involves two of the biggest pop stars alive, and their mighty fandoms are the ones decoding their insinuations, even subtle or unintentional slights can become amplified to the poin ..read more

U.S. President Donald Trump, right, meets with Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed landmark agreements on Tuesday to move toward establishing normal relations with Israel, setting in motion a potentially historic shift in Mideast politics at a White House ceremony hosted by Trump. Photographer: Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images Former President Donald Trump hasn’t said much publicly about the war in Gaza, despite implementing h ..read more

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 31: Former U.S. President Donald Trump enters a news conference at Trump Tower following the verdict in his hush-money trial at Trump Tower on May 31, 2024 in New York City. A New York jury found Trump guilty Thursday of all 34 charges of covering up a $130,000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep her story of their alleged affair from being published during the 2016 presidential election. Trump is the first former U.S. president to be convicted of crimes. Donald Trump became America’s most prominent felon on Thursday, when a New York jury convi ..read more

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - JUNE 17: A view of the ribbon board displaying "Salute to the Negro Leagues Day" before the game between the Seattle Mariners and the Chicago White Sox at T-Mobile Park on June 17, 2023 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images) Major League Baseball has officially added players’ stats from the Negro Leagues to its historical record, a move that allows Black players’ contributions to be credited alongside their white counterparts.  Previously, Negro Leagues’ players were omitted from these archives, meaning the records they set were not acknowledged ..read more

SUQIAN, CHINA - MAY 14: In this photo illustration, the sign of GPT-4o is seen on May 14, 2024 in Suqian, Jiangsu Province of China. OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a new artificial intelligence model, on May 14. (Photo illustration by VCG/VCG via Getty Images) You can’t read much about the risks of advanced AI without soon coming across the paperclip maximizer thought experiment. First put forward by the Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom in his 2003 paper “Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence,” the thought experiment goes like this: Imagine an artificial general intelligence (AGI), one e ..read more

This is the first in a series of stories on how factory farming shapes America. You can visit Vox’s Future Perfect section for future installments and more coverage of Big Ag. This series is supported by Animal Charity Evaluators, which received a grant from Builders Initiative. In early 2023, Marielle Williamson emailed her Los Angeles high school principal requesting permission to protest milk.  A senior and president of the school’s Animal Awareness Club, Williamson wanted to set up a table outside the school cafeteria to distribute literature about inhumane condit ..read more

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 30: Former President Donald Trump and his attorney Todd Blanche exit the courthouse and speak to media after Trump was found guilty following his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. The former president was found guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. Trump has now become the first former U.S. president to be convicted of felony crimes. (Photo by Mark Peterson - Pool/Getty Images) Donald Trump’s very first statement after his conviction on 34 felony char ..read more

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 30: Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to court for his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. Judge Juan Merchan gave the jury instructions, and deliberations are entering their second day. The former president faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. (Photo by Justin Lane - Pool/Getty Images) Donald Trump is now a convicted felon. Donald Trump is also still the favorite to be the next president of the United States. Since as far back as at least 2017, Democ ..read more