President Donald Trump’s claims about prescription drug prices make no mathematical sense. But his team – including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week – keeps straining to defend them.

Two critically important oil pipelines that bypass the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz have been thrust into the global spotlight as the Iran war drags on. Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline and ...

A category-by-category look at odds on favorites, per a mathematical formula that factors in awards season data and historical trends. By Ben Zauzmer Ben Zauzmer is a contributing writer for The ...

Just three days into the conflict, the Iran war has become attritional. Waves of drone attacks by the Islamic Republic are putting pressure on the defenses of the US and its partners from Bahrain to ...

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...

Americans largely disapprove of the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as recent enhanced enforcement operations spread to new cities across the country, a new PBS News/NPR/Marist ...

Research studying the effects of cannabis on the brain has often focused on adolescents, but a new study from CU Anschutz researchers looks at population-level impacts of cannabis usage on the brain ...

A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...

It might have escaped lay people at the time, but for some observers the ascension of Leo XIV as head of the Catholic Church this year was a reminder that the last time a Pope Leo sat in St. Peter’s ...

The meme exploded into youth culture with a video of a boy who delivers a giddy “six seven” at a basketball game. CAM WILDER Photo: Cam Wilder The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six ...

Acalculia can have a huge impact on daily life. Lightspring/ Shutterstock Numbers are all around us. In the morning, we wake up to an alarm that tells us it’s time to get out of bed. When deciding ...

Until now, the AI revolution has been largely measured by size: the bigger the model, the bolder the claims. However, as we move closer to truly autonomous and pervasive AI systems, a new trend is ...