“The problem that Powell faces right now is a very difficult one,” Wolfers said in an MSNBC interview last week. “It is that tariffs have caused a slowdown in economic activity and rising unemployment ...

Despite the fact that they bang their heads against trees on a daily basis, woodpeckers don't suffer brain injuries. Inspired by the tough-headed birds, scientists have developed a fixed-wing drone ...

We meet Stephen Kaufman, who has spent 25 years architecting solutions on behalf of Microsoft. Stephen tells us that his defining characteristic is curiosity, and how his first memory was of taking ...

Mississippi State football is undefeated through four games, its best start since 2014. The Bulldogs face their first SEC opponent, Tennessee, after not winning a conference game last season. MSU's ...

Gates revealed his problem-solving technique in a blog post titled “The Buzz Stops Here” in 2020. He said that he has been using the same method since his teenage years, and it has helped him tackle ...

Zohran Mamdani’s sheltered life — not just his privileged upbringing, but his whole adult “career” — is on display whenever someone asks him a real question, such as why he’s besties with a guy who ...

The beauty and agony of baseball is that anything can happen in a season. You can try your best to divine what the future holds, leveraging the near-infinite wisdom and data that can be accessed these ...

For weeks, COVID-19 activity has been circulating in California, with wastewater showing high levels of the virus since June. Now, hospitalizations are spiking in the state, rising 144% since early ...

Courtney Schultz received funding from the US Forest Service, Joint Fire Science Program, and National Science Foundation for her research on US forest policy Forrest Fleischman received funding from ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The first time Justin Fowlkes got shot, he was standing at a bus stop when a stray bullet meant for someone else struck his ankle. The second time, when a bullet ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...