Microsoft’s MSFT-2.15%decrease; red down pointing triangle Copilot chatbot has become central to its artificial-intelligence strategy as the company’s close partnership with OpenAI diminishes. But the ...

We look into the mental health crisis affecting American youth. By Sam Sifton I am the host of The Morning. The numbers are staggering. Nearly one in four 17-year-old boys in the United States has ...

The sophons’ espionage activities in 3 Body Problem go beyond simply snooping, though. While these pint-sized processors have limited capacity to directly interact with humanity – outside of our ...

I have a 12-year-old son, “Zach.” Zach gets excellent grades, so I was stunned when one of his science assignments came back as a zero. I asked him what on earth happened, and he told me that it was a ...

Like an outraged uncle faced with the unpaid bills of a spendthrift under-graduate, Sir Otto Ernst Niemeyer, officer of the Bank of England, member of the financial committee of the League of Nations ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, who died Aug. 7 at the age of 97, was a pilot and an astronaut, undertook multiple space missions, was a father of four, built a successful career in business and was honored by ...

Australia to recognize Palestinian statehood, Cambodia nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize, and more Length: Long Speed: 1.0x The busy box that is your brain is hard at work all day long—and it ...

The U.S. and European Union on Sunday announced a trade agreement, including 15% tariffs on EU goods imported to the U.S. It comes just days ahead of the Aug. 1 deadline which would have seen EU goods ...

Creative problem-solving can be an exhilarating experience. You get a triple benefit: the euphoric 'aha' moment of solving a puzzle, the pride of accomplishing a goal, and the deeper self-discovery of ...

Numbers, blocks, puzzles, rulers. Math is all around us every day. However, recent research by Suzanne Varnell, a graduate student in the Purdue University Department of Human Development and Family ...

Mathematicians have finally succeeded in unifying the laws of physics that govern the motions of particles at different scales. Their efforts resolve a question set by mathematician David Hilbert in ...