Sometimes, our preference for certitude, our need to define things with conviction, closes us off from possibility. By Melissa Kirsch When Serena Williams retired from tennis in 2022, she was 40 years ...

When British Prime Minister Keir Starmer led the Labour Party to a landslide victory in July 2024, he hailed the result as the end of 14 years of misrule by the Conservative Party and the beginning of ...

Caitlin Clark leads the WNBA with 63 three-point attempts from 26 feet or deeper this season. Her efficiency on those long shots ranks last among players with 25 or more such attempts, with an ...

Back in her college days, it seemed like Caitlin Clark could shoot the ball from anywhere and there was an 85 percent chance it was going to go in the hoop. She had a special aura about her game, and ...

“Petitioner’s evidence of U.S. manufacturing is more persuasive…” – USPTO Director John Squires The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced late Monday that it is designating as informative ...

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 ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

I've spent the last 10 years studying how people make health decisions, in research and in thousands of hours of coaching calls. Here's the pattern I keep seeing: When someone misses a goal they ...

Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...

Natural selection has been playing a bigger role in changing modern human DNA than previously thought, according to a new study. geralt via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 Many people are familiar with ...

HUMANS HAVE never been immune from the pressures of natural selection. Throughout the history of the species circumstances have arisen to give individuals with certain beneficial mutations an ...