The reported valuation aligns with where Manus had been headed before Meta intervened. The company had been raising new funds ...

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

Nancy Shute talks about life’s complexities, from its evolution on Earth as a single cell to complex human behavior.

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get ...

Administering an exam used to be straightforward: All a college professor needed was an open room and a stack of blue books. At many American universities, this is no longer true. Professors now ...

“This is the American way of doing things—to expect to solve all the world’s problems in four days,” complained Sulak Sivaraksa, editor of Bangkok’s Social Science Review. Crumped U.S. Economist Carl ...

In the far reaches of the North Atlantic a postwar problem reared its infant head. By a landslide vote of 45-7, Iceland’s Parliament called for full independence as a Republic on June 17, 1944, ...