Unruly Republic: With artificial intelligence disaster looming, we’re told to empower experts, raise taxes! Could we be heading into another version of climate alarmism? Photo: Noah Berger/AP/Vincent ...

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less likely to adjust their thinking after making mistakes during number ...

Justice Tripp finds a balance between no-frills punk and acid-blotted experiments on a heavy, weary, pissed-off new album. Between those harder highlights and the rogue’s gallery of guest ...

Research says that our health can suffer when we don’t experience enough physical contact. Here’s how to get more. Credit...Vanessa Saba Supported by By Christina Caron Allora Dannon, 35, an author ...

President Trump acknowledged in an interview on Wednesday that his administration could use a “softer touch” on immigration when asked what he learned from the fallout over the handling of the federal ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Are high school students getting the preparation they need for college math? The question, long a focus of study in K-12 math education and policy, is now the subject of a Senate inquiry. Sen. Bill ...

For millions of people, losing their sense of smell quietly reshapes daily life. Meals lose nuance, familiar places feel strangely distant, and critical warning signals like smoke, gas or spoiled food ...

The first touch-enabled Mac is rumored to launch later this year, but a new third-party ‘Magic Screen’ accessory says it can bring touch to existing MacBook Air and MacBook Pro displays. ‘Magic Screen ...

Mathematics be a tricky subject, and many students struggle to get the hang of it, finding it difficult to solve problems and equations in class. It requires a special sort of attention that one can’t ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognize objects, navigate cluttered spaces, and sort thousands of parcels an hour. But ask a robot to touch ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...