A version of this puzzle originally appeared in the October 1960 issue of Scientific American. What’s the Most Distant Galaxy ...

Complete Explanation A logarithm is the power which a certain number is raised to get another number. Before calculators and various types of complex computers were invented it was difficult for ...

The Detroit Lions' offensive line struggled to protect quarterback Jared Goff in a recent loss to the Minnesota Vikings. Goff was sacked five times and pressured on nearly half of his dropbacks, ...

Services on BART's Red and Green lines were interrupted early Monday morning, Just last week, services on both lines were interrupted for several hours due to an equipment problem on the track near ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

MADISON, Wisc. -- Ohio State has been dominant in just about every facet through seven games this season. So much so that any criticism levied against the Buckeyes feels like nitpicking for the nation ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

We’d all like to be innovative, but few people have creativity switches they can turn on at will. (I definitely don’t.) We’re a lot better at convergent thinking, using knowledge and experience to ...

More people are turning to generative A.I. chatbots for financial advice, whether it’s for debt management, better saving strategies or stock picks. Myra Donohue said using a chatbot to help set her ...

Verizon's new Family Line gives you a single shared mobile number. You can share the number across as many as five smartphones. Verizon Family Plus with Family Line costs an extra $10 or $15 a month.

See the world through the lens of science. Sign up for our free, daily newsletter Today in Science. As a child of the 1990s, I couldn’t avoid the game-turned-best-seller Tetris. Launched in 1984 by ...