All the Fancy Measuring Devices Used in Science Rely on Two Stone-Age Techniques

Well, science and baseball. Physicists build models to explain how the world works. It might be an equation, like the ideal ...
Scientific American

Scientists catalog the ‘fractal dimensions’ of more than 130,000 islands

The “coastline paradox” helped to define fractals, but coastlines themselves turn out to be less fractal than thought ...
Smithsonian Magazine

We Use Many of the Same Brain Cells to See and to Imagine Objects, a Study Suggests. The Findings Provide a New Window Into Memory

The researchers studied neural activity in 16 participants with epilepsy who had electrodes in their brains. Maskot via Getty Images Visualizing an object in the mind’s eye allows us to remember the ...
Investopedia

Your Retirement Savings in Your 70s—How Do You Compare?

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Self

Foundayo vs. Wegovy: How Do the New Weight Loss Pills Compare?

If you’re on a weight loss journey, you now have an arsenal of medications at your disposal. And while injectable medications have dominated the space for years, GLP-1 weight loss pills are now on the ...
Robb Report

We Drove Jaguar’s All-Electric Prototype and a Few of Its Legacy Models. Here’s How They Compare.

That car will fully debut in September, but the long lead-up time between its initial announcement in December 2024 until then has given doubters plenty of chance to mock the automaker’s strategy, ...
The New York Times

Where does your team ‘respect the ball’?

“My players made the decision that they wanted to be around the ball, to respect the ball and show unity and leadership.” Liam Rosenior’s explanation of the Chelsea huddle just before kick-off against ...
Pew Research Center

How Do U.S. Men and Women Spend Their Time?

From morning routines to late-night TV, Americans move from task to task throughout their day. How they use their time looks different for older and younger adults. And across age groups, it differs ...
The Conversation

AI doesn’t ‘see’ the way that you do, and that could be a problem when it categorizes objects and scenes

An AI and a human might classify this mammal with gray, wrinkled skin as very different animals. Richard Bailey/Corbis via Getty Images Even with no fur in frame, you can easily see that a photo of a ...
Capital Public Radio

‘How do we get out?’: How an American abroad is navigating the Iran War

The war between the United States, Israel and Iran has stretched into its second week following an initial set of strikes on Feb. 28. The conflict has also impacted neighboring Gulf countries like ...
The Verge

How the new Galaxy S26 phones compare

The new S26 phones all support new AI tools and faster performance, but they still differ in terms of hardware. The new S26 phones all support new AI tools and faster performance, but they still ...