Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...

A team of researchers in the Netherlands set out to decipher the rules of an ancient Roman board game, with an assist from artificial intelligence.

After applying advanced evolutionary modeling techniques, the researchers report that about one-third of the long-proposed “linguistic universals”—patterns believed to exist across all languages—show ...

Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats—solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, conducting encyclopedic surveys of academic literature, and even finding ...

A dizzying array of rules govern what can be bought with SNAP dollars, confusing grocery stores and consumers. By Julie Creswell and Linda Qiu In Iowa, food stamps can be used to purchase ice cream at ...

The “4% rule” isn’t one rule — fixed percentage, fixed dollar, and inflation-adjusted withdrawals behave very differently in real markets. Ramsey’s 8% claim assumes flexible spending, not ...

"We are laying critical groundwork to enable quantum computers with more than 100,000 qubits," Will said. In a paper published in Nature, Will, Yu, and their colleagues combine two powerful ...

There is a rule in mathematics that feels so obvious it barely seems worth stating. Yet accepting it leads to objects with no size, spheres that duplicate themselves, and sets that cannot be measured ...

Happy New Year Picklers!It is a custom with the New Year to share any rule changes for Pickleball. I went on the USA Pickleball website, plus checked out some YouTube posts and some Pickleball ...

A shiny gray crystal called platinum-bismuth-two hides an electronic world unlike anything scientists have seen before. Researchers discovered that only the crystal’s outer surfaces become ...

The UK’s financial regulator is weighing a series of reforms for the country’s mortgage market designed to widen access by responding to more flexible working patterns and longer life expectancies.

Parna Sarkar-Basu is the founder of B&B Consulting & host of Beyond One Million. She writes about entrepreneurship, tech trends & pivots. Entrepreneurship has always been a test of endurance. But I ...