Researchers have found a faster, more accurate way to design magnetic “bottles” that hold plasma for fusion power. Using symmetry theory instead of traditional, slow Newton-based calculations, they ...

Big corporate M&A is booming—and banks are earning megasize fees. In 2025, six acquisitions of U.S. public companies included sell-side fees of at least $100 million for a single bank, according to ...

Then it’s kind of a mystery to try to figure out why and how they’re related.” The Riemann hypothesis has proved to be a font ...

The attention economy has long been the golden goose of Silicon Valley, but the goose is starting to look more like an albatross. Users can’t put their phones down, algorithms rule our lives and human ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Lakers failed to sweep, losing Game 4 to the Rockets 115-96 as Houston played with far more energy. The Lakers ...

Large sparse linear systems arise in diverse fields such as structural engineering, fluid dynamics, network analysis and machine learning. Direct factorisation techniques often become impractical for ...

Long before modern cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, or even graphical interfaces, The Byte Brothers: Program a Problem invited adolescent readers into a different kind of detective story, one ...

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 ...

No matter how much time goes by, some quotes still mean something. This one by Barack Obama is one of them. It seems easy to understand at first. But if you read it carefully, it makes you think about ...

Everybody in South Africa is aware that the country faces severe unemployment. The problem is evident even without looking at the statistics and is felt by all – irrespective of age, gender, level of ...