How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

Three heads are better than one. Versions of this proverb are found worldwide and throughout history. Yet in the race to ...

It’s a bit like giving the soil a DNA test.” A new droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method quantifies root DNA directly from soil ...

When working, we encounter 'problems' almost every day. It was like that in the field of mechanical design. It is like that in the field of building facilities management. And now, as I write as a web ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. Payam ...

In a few short years, we’ve gone from easily identifying AI content that featured superfluous fingers to images and videos that look shockingly realistic. How can we know what’s real in the age of AI?

After writing my first book, Taking Stock, I spent months speaking at conferences about what the dying can teach us about money and life. The book was based on two main ideas: First, we need to define ...

Social media algorithms love challenges with a number. I, for one, can’t get enough of the viral 12-3-30 treadmill workout (walking at 12% incline, at a speed of three miles per hour, for 30 minutes).

More than 100 years ago Hungarian-born mathematician George Pólya found himself trapped in a loop of social awkwardness. A professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, he enjoyed ...

In a bid to treat blindness, Life Biosciences will try out potent cellular reprogramming technology on volunteers. When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging ...

If you’re on any form of social media, there’s a very good chance you will have recently been harangued by videos of very fit looking people extolling the virtues of the ‘Tai Chi walking method’. This ...

Gift giving is arguably one of the most joyous and stressful parts of the holiday season. Figuring out who you need to shop for and how much you should spend on everyone on your list is enough to make ...