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 ...

Discover a fast and powerful calculus-based method for finding square roots with impressive accuracy. This explanation shows how derivatives and iterative approximation can be used to quickly zero in ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants us to return to the golden age of air travel, when nobody got into a punching match for reclining a seat into someone else’s lap. He says this golden age ...

The government shutdown may have ended, but problems that were already plaguing U.S. airports and airlines before the 43-day lapse in funding are far from over. “Airlines cannot flip a switch and ...

Japanese trade association CODA says Sora 2’s opt-out policy may have violated copyright law. Japanese trade association CODA says Sora 2’s opt-out policy may have violated copyright law. is a news ...

The Denver Broncos are a feisty bunch. They get after opposing quarterbacks hard, and when their own QB, Bo Nix, gets on a tear, their offense can score points in a hurry. Occasionally the Broncos’ ...

Located adjacent to Georgia Tech’s campus in Midtown Atlanta, the $222-million mixed-use Science Square combines a life science building and a multifamily residential tower. The 13-story, ...

College students are being wrongly accused of using AI to cheat on their assignments by their university — based, in a headache-inducing twist, on the findings of another AI system. A student named ...

As the ninth day of the government shutdown wears on, the focus is on how many air traffic controllers show up to work tonight. The Federal Aviation Administration reported staffing shortages for ...

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