This is a column about a helpful trick that will radically improve your memory with minimal effort so you can learn faster. But before I get to the science behind the technique and how it can help ...

A team of scientists led by Asari AI along with researchers from Caltech and MIT, has developed a new framework that enables programmers to improve AI agents such that they make fewer mistakes and ...

After a failed investment shatters their seemingly stable life, middle-class couple Li Congcong and Xiao Keming are forced to confront how fragile their urban success truly is. When they unexpectedly ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

In the early 2000s, I discovered this oasis city brighter than the moon at night, planted in the desert of Clark County, Nev., called Las Vegas. It was sensory overload at first sight. Like the vast ...

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 ...

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Tell me about what you had for dinner last night. There are different ways you could fill in the details of that story. You could give perceptual descriptions of how your food looked and tasted. Or ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...