Cases such as Kimura’s—and some that inspire even more skepticism—fill the pages of “Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity ...

Farrar, Straus and Giroux has launched a new science imprint, Quanta Books, in partnership with the Simons Foundation, where the imprint is an editorially independent subsidiary. The mission, the ...

If you’re worried about artificial intelligence taking your job, you might want to sit down for this one. AI startup Anthropic has demonstrated a new “Claude” model called that can look at a computer ...

We are a research-led school with a reputation for excellent teaching and courses with real-world impact. We are based across four sites, comprising more than 2000 students and 190 specialist staff ...

The EDSC 12 meeting will focus on advancing the measurement and monitoring frameworks for SDG 4 indicators. Powering SDG 9.5 The 2026 Global R&D Survey Is Underway. 2026 Education Data Refresh ...

When it comes to the cat-and-mouse game of stopping cheaters in online games, anti-cheat efforts often rely in part on technology that ensures the wider system running the game itself isn’t ...

In Citizen Science: How Ordinary People are Changing the Face of Discovery (The Overlook Press: New York, NY, 2016), Caren Cooper begins by listing the enormous problems we face that scientists alone ...

Back in 1995, Kurt Vonnegut gave a lecture in which he described his theory about the shapes of stories. In the process, he plotted several examples on a blackboard. “There is no reason why the simple ...

“More is better.” From the number of gigs in a cellular data plan to the horsepower in a pickup truck, this mantra is ubiquitous in American culture. When it comes to college students, the belief that ...

Gottfried Wilhelm von Liebniz was a philosopher and mathematician in search of a model. In the late 1600s Leibniz decided there was a need for a new, purer arithmetic than our common decimal system.

Back in 1998, a little known climate scientist named Michael Mann and two colleagues published a paper that sought to reconstruct the planet's past temperatures going back half a millennium before the ...