The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week. The problem: That solution looks broken, too. The US job ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

"We have demonstrated that it is impossible to describe all aspects of physical reality using a computational theory of quantum gravity," says Dr. Faizal. "Therefore, no physically complete and ...

Learning how to drive a manual transmission is a great idea for drivers, young and old. Not only are they usually fun, but you never know when the skill will come in handy. In a world dominated by ...

From powering search engines to securing data and optimizing networks, algorithms underpin nearly every aspect of modern technology. Understanding how efficiently they can solve problems — and where ...

After a 35-year quest, the final solution to a famous puzzle called Kryptos has been found. Two writers discovered the fourth answer to the code hidden among the Smithsonian Institution’s archives.

Federal technology and cybersecurity services provider The One 23 Group has completed the acquisition of Integrated Computer Solutions, a company specializing in mission IT, enterprise IT and ...

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...

The Theory publication and the companion on the practice of compiling consumer price indices (CPIs) is jointly published by the member agencies of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Price ...

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum world. However, the new theory remains far from being proven observationally.

Dennis Xu is a repeat tech startup founder, but he’s the first to admit he’s not a programmer. After co-founding AI note-taking app Mem — one of OpenAI’s earliest venture investments — he has now ...