Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

The "Idiom", a statue by Slovak artist Matej Kren, is a cylindrical tower of 8,000 books with a tear-shaped entrance and mirrors at each end.

Prague has long been a tourism hub thanks to its Baroque architecture and deep cultural history, but its latest draw – a ...

Researchers studying the impact of social media on society—everything from effects on teenagers’ mental health to the spread ...

Most platforms give you some control over what appears in your recommendations and ‘for you’ feeds. Most platforms give you some control over what appears in your recommendations and ‘for you’ feeds ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...

Jan 10 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Saturday that social media platform X will open its new algorithm, including all code for organic and advertising post recommendations, to the public in seven days ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since April 2024 Look up throughout the year to catch a wide array of astronomical ...

On New Year’s Eve this year, while much of urban India was preoccupied with countdowns, celebrations, and the familiar ritual of drawing a line under the past twelve months, a more consequential ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

For years, we’ve been bombarded by the trope of aging gracefully—staying small, moving slowly, playing it safe in the gym and in life. But a growing number of women are rejecting that tired script and ...