For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...

Third Avenue and Pine Street, a corner that has come to symbolize downtown Seattle’s troubles, is getting a new role: home base. The Downtown Seattle Association has turned a long-vacant retail space ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

A 3-year-old girl was taken to the hospital on Wednesday after falling from a window in the Glendale neighborhood of Queens, according to CBS News. Officers responded to a building on Myrtle Avenue, ...

The Democratic Party’s socialist wing is taking a victory lap after more than a dozen Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA, backed candidates won or are expected to advance in primaries across ...

Keir Starmer’s UK election landslide in 2024 came after a series of Conservative governments marked by scandal, chaos and a budget problem with no easy fix. Two years later, the Labour prime minister ...

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In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

With fewer students, many public school districts are confronting unfilled classrooms, and hard choices about school closures. By Sarah Mervosh Francesca Paris and Claire Cain Miller As American women ...