Mathematicians sometimes think of their research as a garden and unsolved problems as seeds waiting to sprout.Some problems are analogous…
FEMA Disaster Aid Freeze Threatens 'Acute Harm,' Judge RulesThe Federal Emergency Management Agency must show in one week whether it…
The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern Hemisphere…
Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words — mm-hmm,…
CLIMATEWIRE | Lawmakers and officials from Western states are warning that President Donald Trump’s firings and funding freezes will leave…
Some private schools have shut down because of a rapidly escalating measles outbreak in West Texas. Local health departments are…
February 20, 20253 min readMicrosoft Claims Quantum-Computing Breakthrough—but Some Physicists Are SkepticalWith its ‘topological’ quantum computers, Microsoft aims to reach…
Norovirus conjures a nightmarish series of gastrointestinal symptoms, and the hated infection has been rampant this winter. The so-called stomach…
February 14, 20253 min readThe Psychology of ‘Shared Silence’ in CouplesThe right kind of silence can be golden, revitalizing and…
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.When a hurricane or…