Matter Neuroscience installed phone booths in liberal San Francisco and conservative Abilene, Texas, encouraging strangers to engage in conversation across party lines.

Matter Neuroscience, a tech startup, recently launched the project. Using data from the 2024 elections, the company wanted to ...

Tennessee’s first “wind telephone” was created by Allison Young, a cancer research nurse at Vanderbilt University, in East Nashville. The concept comes from Japan, and the idea is that a disconnected ...

Another members-only club has landed in Miami, but this one requires you to enter through a red telephone booth. Red Phone Booth, created by Weber Bros. Hospitality, is taking it up a notch with a ...

In Japan, a disconnected telephone booth became an unexpected space for private grief. The booth, often referred to as the “wind phone,” enables people to speak with loved ones who have passed away ...

Laguna Beach has enlisted two of its resident artists to get conversations started, as Candice Brokenshire and Julie Setterholm have put up a new installation called “We Need to Talk” at the phone ...

CLAIM: British telephone booths are being retrofitted with defibrillators because the COVID-19 vaccines are causing more cardiac arrests. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. A movement to install defibrillators ...

Uniquely is a Fresno Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Fresno area so special. Whether it’s pizza with pineapple, flip flops with a ...