The best films of 2025 emerged from a landscape as politically volatile and competitively lopsided as the darkest days in Hollywood history. This climate of consolidation and capitulation gave a ...

Of everything I saw on TV in 2025, the one show I thought was the very best, and has haunted me ever since, was the four-part Netflix drama Adolescence. It's the story of a young teen accused of ...

A landmark real-world experiment gave the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccine could lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, finally giving concrete data to ...

Robert Redford, Roberta Flack, Diane Keaton and Brian Wilson are among the cultural luminaries who died this year. Robert Redford, Roberta Flack, Diane Keaton and Brian Wilson are among the cultural ...

From a sticky meditation on relationships to a Valentine's Day slasher, there was a lot to love this year. By most metrics, 2025 was a brutal year to be alive — but a comparatively gentle one for ...

Variety is, as they say, the spice of life, and 2025 provided a fantastic array of different video games. We’ve survived and extracted from the robot-ruled battlefields of Arc Raiders, adventured ...

“Continue?” It’s one of the oldest words in video games. You stumble. You put in another quarter. You try again. Hey, you’ll get ‘em next time. Never has that sentiment been more true than in 2025 — ...

The winter solstice marks the official start of winter, bringing the shortest day and longest night of the year. In 2025, the winter solstice will occur on Sunday, December 21, signaling the beginning ...

It’s time to test how well you recognize some of the defining personalities of 2025. We’ll show you photos of 52 people; you tell us their names. Two tips: Use the hints; they’re there to help you.

Grab your mouse and get clicking, because it's been a great year for games, and the PC has seen nearly all of them cross its path. The IGN staff has rounded up the best PC gaming had to offer in 2025 ...

Here is Loudwire's ranking of the 13 best metal albums of 2025. We've already anointed singled out this year's 51 best rock and metal albums of the year overall, but now it's time to get into the ...

The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects in the known universe. Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, ...