In 1776, the year the American Revolution began, the known solar system was a tidy place. Six planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. All visible to the naked eye, all known to ...

Judd Rosenblatt believes that we need a new idea to ensure that self-improving AI doesn't delete human values from its code ...

The longest documented family tree in the world belongs to the Chinese philosopher Confucius, whose descendants can be traced across more than 80 generations, stretching nearly 3,000 years from his ...

When Andreas Albrecht was a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania, he was looking for an advisor in particle physics ...

A bill moving through the California Legislature would test students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an effort ...

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a system—like the orbit of planets.

School is supposed to be a place of growth, curiosity, and intellectual discovery, and for the most part, teachers are the ...

However, John Collison, the cofounder and president of $159 billion payment processing startup Stripe, argues that college ...

A 72-year-old in Phoenix opens a letter from her Medicare Advantage insurer in July. Her cardiologist, the one she has seen ...

Facing this barrage of issues, how might we remind ourselves of the humanities’ potential for not just compassion and ...

While years of broken promises left many beginning to doubt whether it was ever coming, Apple finally unveiled a ...

Medical breakthroughs, side effects of AI use, and histories of the natural world feature among this season’s science titles.