When Warren Buffett gets nervous, you and I should probably be nervous too. The Oracle of Omaha has long held to a simple ...

Locked Capitol doors and more cash for security are the new normal after Minnesota assassination Congress keeps holding ...

Social norms are governed by the "Tolerance Principle", a mathematical rule that explains how habits click and when social ...

A paper appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a strikingly simple answer to a longstanding ...

Individuals in a morally diverse community tend to believe that the community's norms are looser. In turn, norm violations ...

San Francisco eighth graders will have the option to take Algebra 1 next year after it was pulled from the school district’s middle school curriculum in 2014, and a yearslong campaign sought to ...

In ancient Greece, Euclid showed that if you agree on a small list of preliminary principles, or axioms, you can use deductive reasoning to reveal all sorts of new mathematical truths. But although ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Many technologists say artificial intelligence will reshape the future of all sectors of society, including K-12 education. Therefore, they add that today’s students need to have AI literacy to ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...