The alcoholic brain is clever and deceitful. We become great liars out of necessity, to keep up the charade that “everything ...

Influence becomes difficult to trace not because documents are hidden, but because they are inaccessible in practice.

Applicants are not supposed to use AI to write college essays. But colleges are using AI to help assess applications. At ...

The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week. The problem: That solution looks broken, too. The US job ...

Mo Marie Lauyanne Kouame, 18, dreams of being an aerospace engineer and building spacecraft. This fall, she applied to MIT, Princeton, and Columbia. For one college essay, she wrote about being ...

At a birthday party for Elon Musk in northern California wine country, late at night after cocktails, he and longtime friend Larry Page fell into an argument about the safety of artificial ...

Microplastics seem to be everywhere—in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. They have turned up in human organs, blood, testicles, placentas and even brains. While the full health ...

The war will end. The leaders will shake hands. The old woman will keep waiting for her martyred son. That girl will wait for her beloved husband. And those children will wait for their heroic father.

I used to believe I taught the one genre that artificial intelligence couldn’t touch. For 15 years, I’ve guided college students through the deeply human work of personal narrative, helping them ...

Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...

Two mathematicians have used a new geometric approach in order to address a very old problem in algebra. In school, we often learn how to multiply out and factor polynomial equations like (x² – 1) or ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Most people’s experiences with polynomial equations don’t extend ...