If this were a game of Civilization, we'd certainly be moving into the "Future Era", which the game's wiki describes as containing "marvels beyond the dreams of ancient prophets, and terrors more ...

My habit of seeking out new music began with a few strokes of good luck. I grew up in a college town in the early to mid-nineties, during one of the golden eras of college radio. I spent a significant ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

A former Senior Publishing Editor on the Dow Jones Newswires team at The Wall Street Journal, Aaron earned a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Michigan and a Master's in Journalism ...

Onity Group — the parent company of PHH Mortgage Corp. and its reverse mortgage arm, Liberty Reverse Mortgage — announced on Tuesday that the company has entered into a “strategic relationship” with ...

Researchers used supramolecular nanoparticles to repair the brain’s vascular system and reverse Alzheimer’s in mice. Instead of carrying drugs, the nanoparticles themselves triggered natural clearance ...

Named after a pair of psychologists who described it in a classic 1999 paper, the Dunning-Kruger effect describes a common dynamic most of us have observed in everyday life. People who know the least ...

The rise of the reverse age-gap is an indicator of how far we’ve come in reimagining relationships as spaces of growth rather than social contracts. For years, heterosexual relationships have followed ...

What is the most important number in the entirety of mathematics? Ok, that’s a pretty silly question – out of infinite possibilities, how could you possibly choose? I suppose a big hitter like 2 or 10 ...

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 16: Mamie Underhill (L), 104, and her daughter Leita Chapman laugh while reading a birthday card for Mamie during a birthday celebration for five women residents at the ...

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 ...

Cash-strapped students in Scotland will soon be able to put some extra money in their pockets by doing right by the environment. As part of a pilot program being initiated by a partnership between ...