The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...
Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta passed the order while hearing a petition seeking a direction to authorities to provide palliative care to terminally ill persons as part of the ...
SINGAPORE: When Singapore Airlines announced that changes were coming to its KrisFlyer frequent flyer programme, effective from Nov 1, most of the attention was on the increase in miles required for ...
Scientists have begun to unravel the origin story of a cataclysmic collision between two black holes, which seem to have met their fate on a rarely observed "squashed" orbital path. The binary black ...
AI-powered app development is really taking off, and smartphone maker Nothing seems intent on capitalizing on the trend: The company on Tuesday revealed Playground, an AI tool that lets users create ...
An Egyptian wrestler is hoping he has set a world record after pulling a 700-ton (635,000kg) ship with his teeth. Ashraf Mahrous, 44, pulled it across the water in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Hurghada ...
President Donald Trump on Thursday promised to use revenue from his new taxes on imports to provide aid to American farmers, throwing his weight behind a proposal floated last week by his agriculture ...
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is facing backlash after using an image of an emaciated Israeli hostage in an Instagram post allegedly showing Palestinians suffering. The post read, "The suffering of ...