Jeez, RPG board games are so hard to get right, aren't they? They have to deliver adventurous, imaginative freedom, a real sense of setting and characters, and meaningful storytelling, all in the ...

Abstract: With the rapid advancement of free-to-play games featuring in-game payments, the loot box sales model challenges traditional fixed-price purchases by stimulating players’ psychological ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

The Squid Game: The Challenge Season 2 finale had it all – an emotional sacrifice, an epic showdown, and an unexpected twist that changed everything. But some viewers think it’s a little too perfect, ...

Pregnancy has long been framed as an evolutionary tug-of-war. The fetus presses for resources, while the mother mounts defenses to limit invasive placentation. A new study in PNAS challenges that view ...

Picture an auto factory humming with energy. A robot rapidly assembles car doors while a human checks each one for quality. Their partnership looks seamless – with machines handling speed and strength ...

What if I told you that social media isn’t just a chaotic swirl of memes, trends, and endless scrolling, but a carefully orchestrated battlefield where every post, like, and share is part of a larger ...

Faculty of Economics and Management, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan, China The rapid progress of the digital economy has established digital transformation as a ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Looking at my bookshelf, I’m stricken with guilt: the collected Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle have been sitting untouched for years. Unfortunately, I never got past the fantastic ...

Looking at my bookshelf, I’m stricken with guilt: the collected Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle have been sitting untouched for years. Unfortunately, I never got past the fantastic ...