This is part of a series of columns about the viability of the American university system. In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about ...

Bitcoin Ordinals let assets be issued on top of Bitcoin more efficiently. Users are split on whether they should exist but ...

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...

Dying without a will can be costly and eliminate your ability to provide for loved ones.

When a kindergartner is asked to solve the equation 7 + 6, the numbers alone don’t always make clear what they’re being asked to do: determine what number is six numbers greater than seven. To figure ...

If you've got the time, we've got the riddle. And it's time for a riddle about time: How many numbers are on a clock? It begins with the simplest of questions that, nevertheless, has no simple answer.

Andrew Robinson is the author of Lost Languages (2002) and other books on scripts and decipherment. He is based in London. How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct ...

It’s always a bit nerve-racking when you receive a phone call from a number you don’t recognize. You wonder whether you should answer it in case it’s important or if it’s just another one of those ...

Researchers who are using generative AI to write scientific papers are publishing a significantly higher number of studies, a new analysis finds (Science 2025, DOI: 10.1126/science.adw3000). The ...

Copilot integration in Microsoft 365 apps makes it a snap to generate first drafts, revise text, and get instant summaries for long docs or email threads. Here’s how to use Copilot for writing ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In an age of constant communication, receiving phone calls or messages from unknown numbers has become increasingly common. Whether it's a ...

Two hundred years ago, the son of a saddler from a rural French village devised a groundbreaking tactile writing method of raised dots for blind people at the mere age of 15. Changing attitudes before ...