Astronomers may have uncovered new details about one of the Milky Way's most important ancient collisions. Using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and a new clustering ...

Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero.

A business owner in Oak Creek says delays at the United States Postal Service (USPS) are creating problems with her customers. The woman says one delivery took up to ten days, despite her paying for ...

Users shouldn't be afraid of exploring music or letting their kids choose a song, but since Apple Music lacks manual algorithm controls, one wrong song can upend your recommendations for weeks. Apple ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

People think Monopoly was born of the Great Depression. But as author Mary Pilon discovered, Monopoly was actually created as a leftwing teaching tool around the Gilded Age. Mary Pilon, author of The ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

A deal between the U.S. and China over the ownership of TikTok includes new stipulations over who controls the social media company's algorithm, a closely guarded secret which has proved to be a major ...

Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. TikTok announced on Jan. 22, 2026, that it has formed TikTok ...

When we swipe your card, type in your credit card number online, or see that mysterious “invalid card” error, we rarely pause to ask: How does the system know this number is even valid? Behind the ...

Climate journalist Alec Luhn survived six harrowing days stranded in Norway’s wilderness with a broken leg by drinking his own urine, eating grass and moss and even popping a blister to drink his own ...