Early IRS data shows fewer tax returns processed and few refunds issued through Feb. 6, but the average refund amount is up.

Tax season is underway, and this year brings a perfect storm that could leave millions of Americans waiting longer for their refunds. The IRS is facing steep staffing cuts, complex new tax rules and ...

If you’ve ever stared at a mountain of research papers wondering how on earth you’ll make sense of them all, you’re not the only one. That’s why I decided to try Elicit AI. It felt like having a ...

I n February 2016, after exchanging email pleasantries with the left-wing public intellectual Noam Chomsky and extending an invitation to his private island, Jeffrey Epstein recommended an article.

Cristani, C. and Tessera, D. (2026) A Foundational Protocol for Reproducible Visualization in Multivariate Quantum Data. Open Access Library Journal, 13, 1-13. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1114704 .

Writing is often the hardest part of research, even after you’ve done all the background reading and figured out your main ...

An extra set of eyes on radiology scans, double-checking for signs of prostate cancer. A green light telling surgeons when it's safe to operate on trauma patients. A reminder system that finds and ...

Whether this signals a move towards more democratised AI development.

Patrick Healy, an assistant managing editor who oversees The Times’s journalistic standards, talked with four of the journalists who are working on the Epstein files to kick around those questions.

A mystery novel, a history book, and a fantasy epic may have little in common in plot or style. But count the words inside them and a strange regularity appears: many new words show up early, then ...

Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers.

California’s revised GDP pace pushed it ahead of Japan’s $4.28 trillion economy – but by just $16 billion. Japan had previously reclaimed the world’s No. 4 spot, surpassing California, according to ...