Quick Take Scientists used a powerful synchrotron X-ray system, robotics, and AI to scan 2,000 ant specimens in just one week ...

Recently, I’ve spent a lot of time using AI to work on Erdős problems. The work itself is technical, but the lesson it ...

Scientists have solved a long-standing geometry problem by discovering the first compact Bonnet torus pair after over a ...

A geometry puzzle first posed in 1966 has baffled mathematicians for decades. Known as the moving sofa problem, it asks for the largest shape that can pass through an L-shaped corridor. Now a young ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. When a Los Angeles architect approached me about a new residential project, the brief was simple and timeless. A ...

Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., listens as Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol on May 15, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) Congress is ...

Solid-state batteries could store more energy and charge faster than today’s batteries, but they tend to crack and fail over time. Stanford researchers found that a nanoscale silver treatment can ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

For more than a decade, the Earth observation industry has insisted that commercial adoption is just around the corner. Yet adoption outside defense remains limited, uneven, and difficult to sustain.

3M's output of new product launches tumbled in the years before CEO Bill Brown took the helm. Brown set a strategy of boosting new product launches, and the results have been impressive. In 2025, 3M ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wikipedia has recently come under the microscope. I take some credit for this, as the co-founder of Wikipedia and a vocal critic ...