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Adas polo, a Persian recipe perfumed with cinnamon and layered with caramelized onions and dates, only feels expensive. A bowl of lentils and rice is essential comfort food across many cultures. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. (David Malosh, The New York Times)

A comforting rice dish that won’t break the bank

March 20, 2024 at 12:00 p.m.

Lentils and rice scented with warm spices and strewn with fried onions is a classic Persian dish with infinite variations.

Skillet Chicken With Orzo, Dill and Feta. Feta and dill are a classic pairing in Greek cooking, and they bring special zing to this one-pan chicken dinner. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. (David Malosh, The New York Times)

Five Weeknight Dishes: Easy dill dinners

March 18, 2024 at 6:00 p.m.

All five of these dinner recipes feature the fragrance and its feathery herb dill.

Pieter Abbeel, president, chief scientist and co-founder of Covariant, at the company's headquarters in Emeryville, Calif., on March 8, 2024. Covariant, a robotics start-up, is designing technology that lets robots learn skills like chatbots. (Balazs Gardi, The New York Times)

How the AI that drives ChatGPT will move into the physical world

March 16, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

A startup founded by three former OpenAI researchers is using the technology development methods behind chatbots to build AI technology that can navigate the physical world.

FILE -- The investor and technologist Kai-Fu Lee, left, speaks in Beijing, Aug. 22, 2018. The Chinese firm 01.AI was founded by Lee. (Yan Cong, The New York Times)

China鈥檚 rush to dominate AI comes with a twist: It depends on U.S. technology

March 16, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

The Chinese firm, 01.AI, was only eight months old but had deep-pocketed backers and a $1 billion valuation and was founded by a well-known investor and technologist, Kai-Fu Lee. In...

Roasted root vegetables with hot honey. Roasting vegetables without flipping or stirring them helps them caramelize on the bottom and end up tender inside. Food styled by Barrett Washburne. (Nico Schinco, The New York Times)

The one way to roast every kind of vegetable

March 13, 2024 at 9:20 a.m.

The sheet-pan method works just as well on cold weather roots, florets and dark leafy greens as it does with spring鈥檚 sprightly asparagus and string beans and summer鈥檚 juicy tomatoes...

A loaf of Irish brown bread in New York on Feb. 29, 2024. A staple of the Ballymaloe Cookery School in Cork, Ireland, Irish brown bread is as satisfying and foolproof as they come. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne. (Julia Gartland/The New York Times)

A hearty Irish bread absolutely anyone can make

March 13, 2024 at 9:12 a.m.

This simple whole-wheat loaf requires no kneading, shaping or baking experience to get it right.

Julie Burkhart, left, founder of Wellspring Health Access, catches up on work with a medical assistant, in Casper, Wyo., on May 25, 2023. The only abortion clinic left in the state has been protested and set on fire, rebuilt and opened as Wyoming grapples with what it means to be conservative in a post-Roe nation. (Joanna Kulesza/The New York Times)

Wyoming banned abortion. She opened an abortion clinic anyway.

March 10, 2024 at 2:26 p.m.

Instead of finding only resistance in a Trump-voting state, she has encountered the nation鈥檚 complex politics of abortion post-Roe.

"Escape Hatch" podcast co-hosts Matt Herrero, left, and Jason Goldman who recorded an installment of their audio series after a premiere party for "Dune: Part Two" at a movie theater complex in downtown San Francisco, Feb. 29, 2024. Across science fiction obsessed Silicon Valley, from venture capital firms to tech executive circles, people booked their own private screenings of the second installment of the Denis Villeneuve-directed movie series. (Laura Morton/The New York Times)

“Dune: Part Two” gives sci-fi-obsessed Silicon Valley a reason to party

March 9, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

The techies were all there to celebrate Silicon Valley鈥檚 newest obsession: 鈥淒une: Part Two,鈥� the latest movie adapted from the Frank Herbert-authored science-fiction saga, which helped inspire many of them...

Canceling subscriptions is simple -- the tough part is remembering to do it. (Derek Abella, The New York Times)

Streaming prices keep going up. Here鈥檚 how to manage subscriptions.

March 9, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

With all the price increases for video streaming apps like Amazon Prime Video, Netflix and Hulu, the average household that subscribes to four streaming apps may now end up paying...

A group of Mexican coroners watch as Alex Smith, center, the lab manager of Colorado Mesa University’s Forensic Investigation Research Station, searching for maggots under a decomposing body, at Colorado Mesa University’s forensic research station in Whitewater, Colo., on Feb. 13, 2024. The U.S. government brought Mexican coroners to America to learn how to detect fatal overdoses, hoping to show that fentanyl kills in Mexico, too. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)

How a “body farm” might help tackle fentanyl abuse

March 4, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

One strategy for getting Mexico to do more to curb the flow, U.S. officials say, is to demonstrate that fentanyl isn鈥檛 just an American addiction 鈥� it抖阴ap killing Mexicans, too.

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