Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of ...

When you push or pull with a simple machine, you are applying a force and doing work. And, if you get more force out of a machine than you put into it, then that machine has a mechanical advantage.

Darryl Jones does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

She embodied something that feels rare in our modern world: the simple act of treating others — human or animal — with compassion. Lindsay L. Graff is a PhD student at the University of ...

It’s clobbering time for The Rock in The Smashing Machine, the new biopic about MMA fighter Mark Kerr, which opens in theaters this weekend. There’s no one better to play a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Discovering that a paper contains data that appears to be fraudulent is an academic researcher’s nightmare. It leads to professional blacklisting, reevaluation of entire bodies of work, even a ...

August 29 - Four-time world champion Max Verstappen didn't get stressed by widespread speculation in recent months that he might leave Red Bull Racing for Mercedes in 2026. In fact, he said "it was ...

Maybe that’s why a reader who had watched Don’t Die, the quasi documentary about Bryan Johnson, the tech entrepreneur turned anti-aging guru who says his rigorous health routine has cut at least five ...

CHICAGO — The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry recently unveiled a new interactive exhibit, “Beyond the Surface: The Art of X-rays,” by photographer Andrei Duman, allowing museum guests to ...

In the age of artificial intelligence, comparing the human brain to a computer has become a common trope. The metaphor is convenient, suggesting ideas of memory banks, data processing, and logic ...