Why Flick’s tongue stuck to a frozen pole in A Christmas Story — and why that scene felt different growing up in Southern ...

Discover the power of predictive modeling to forecast future outcomes using regression, neural networks, and more for improved business strategies and risk management.

A comedian performing at the Milwaukee Improv posed a redundant but disingenuous question: Why did the club carry the name Milwaukee if it was located in the exclusively white city […] ...

Yunnan sugar-apple yields are declining. Research shows combining 75% soil water capacity, moderate fertilizer (2083 kg/ha), ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

Google has demonstrated a 13,000 times speedup for the Quantum Echoes algorithm using its Willow quantum chip. The feat is repeatable, according to the company, and it paves the way toward real-world ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

We all know that leaves on trees sequester CO2, taking in the carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen for us to breathe. However, experts now say, tree bark could be sucking in a large amount of another ...

A deep learning algorithm that only uses data from mammogram images along with age may predict major cardiac events as accurately as traditional cardiovascular risk calculators, new data suggest. The ...