India's Bharatiya Janata Party has captured West Bengal for the first time in the state's history, winning more than 205 of 294 assembly seats and ending Mamata Banerjee's 15-year run in power.
The most reliable person at work is often closest to quiet collapse, not from ordinary burnout, but because being depended on became the only available proof they still mattered.
The parent who keeps offering help long after the kids stopped needing it isn't being intrusive. They're trying to stay relevant in a story whose original role ended around the time the kids learned to drive — and nobody wrote them a script for what comes next.
The friend everyone calls for advice often can't take any of it themselves. It isn't hypocrisy. It's that being the wise one became a role they can't exit without renegotiating every relationship they have.
Firefly Aerospace plans to fly the upgraded Block II version of its Alpha rocket on Flight 8, marking the company's next attempt to put a troubled early launch…
The body's losses are the visible kind, but the deeper erosion of aging is the slow disappearance of the people who can confirm the younger version of you ever existed — and the strange task of learning to become your own witness.
Interlune has secured a $6.9 million NASA award to build what the company says will be the first payload designed to extract solar-wind volatiles, including helium-3, directly from lunar regolith on the moon.
The role of being everyone's emergency contact looks like closeness from the outside, but the loneliest part is the slow recognition that you've built a life full of people you support and almost no one you've ever asked to support you back.
Walk into any pharmacy and you can buy a cognitive aging strategy off the shelf.
There's a particular kind of woman in her forties who, when asked the standard question — "Do you have kids?
You can usually tell which grandparent is the favorite without anyone having to say so.
There is a thriving industry built around the question of how to keep your mind sharp in retirement.
"Classy" is a tricky word. It gets used, mostly, to describe a particular kind of expensive — clean lines, good fabric, the right shoes, a tasteful restraint.
You probably know one. The friend who took the safe career instead of the one she really wanted, because her father had a strong opinion about it.
The phone goes face-down before the meeting begins. Before the book opens. Before the long walk starts.
It is one of the most distinctive social capacities, and one of the most easily misread.
