One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

When Apple released iOS 26 back in September, many iPhone users were eager to try its new customizations, features, and security updates. But, as with major software transitions, the launch hasn't ...

In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem that had stymied mathematicians for a century. In this case, the solvers weren't human. An artificial ...

Bluetooth is a technology for short-range data transmission that has become so ubiquitous in recent years that we can no longer imagine life without it. This makes it all the more annoying when ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

Willowy romantic comedies are a dime-a-dozen at Christmastime, but the only complaints are coming from people who don’t like Christmas rom-coms in the first place. This genre’s fans aren’t looking to ...

You probably don’t need more time. By Jancee Dunn When I look back on all the major decisions I’ve dithered over, I could scream. It took me a decade to commit to becoming a parent. I wavered for a ...

We are moving from a world of institutional dependency to one of personal responsibility. The question is no longer, “What can we do for people?” but, “How can we equip people to do more for ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, who died Aug. 7 at the age of 97, was a pilot and an astronaut, undertook multiple space missions, was a father of four, built a successful career in business and was honored by ...

The busy box that is your brain is hard at work all day long—and it doesn’t quit when you’re asleep. Not only does your brain fill your slumber with dreams, it also goes right on solving the problems ...

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) have the most problems of any category of new vehicles, reports J.D. Power in the 2025 U.S. Initial Quality Study. That includes more problems than their ...

Listening to “I’m the Problem” all the way through — no small task, with its 37 songs clocking in at 1 hour and 57 minutes — what’s most remarkable is how little interest Wallen has in actually ...