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 ...

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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- It's a sight becoming increasingly common for Houstonians: gushing water spewed from broken city pipes left to leak onto public sidewalks and roads for days, sometimes even ...

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 ...

Microsoft released an out-of-band update to fix the March 2026 non-security preview update, which was pulled over the weekend due to installation issues. The optional cumulative update (KB5079391) was ...

Generally speaking, we’ve been fans of Nissan’s 1.5-liter VC-Turbo I-3 found under the hood of the Nissan Rogue. Its variable-compression technology is unique, and we’ve found it to have decent power ...

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One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s MSFT-2.08%decrease; down pointing triangle Copilot chatbot has become central to its artificial-intelligence strategy as the company’s close partnership with OpenAI diminishes. But the ...

At the start of each year, Governing writers and editors compile a list of the biggest issues to watch in state and local government in the coming 12 months. Some of the topics show up almost every ...

Over the last couple of years, in our individual coaching and long-term hybrid Instructional Leadership Collective work, the two of us have discovered a pattern. Regardless of which country we are ...