Researchers have uncovered shared genetic pathways that link multiple psychiatric disorders. These new findings have the potential to change the way psychiatric disorders are diagnosed and treated, ...

Discover a fast and powerful calculus-based method for finding square roots with impressive accuracy. This explanation shows how derivatives and iterative approximation can be used to quickly zero in ...

Kristen Stewart is weighing in on the Method acting debate. “The Chronology of Water” director recently told the New York Times that acting is by nature “quite embarrassing and unmasculine,” and that ...

Where Winds Meet players are taking a novel approach to solving riddles by… simply telling the game's AI-powered chatbot NPCs that they have solved the game's riddles. The Wuxia open-world ...

I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...

This breakthrough allows researchers to visualize where individual genes are active at the cellular level—information that has long been missing due to technical limitations in tea biology. By ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Managing multiple debts at once is rarely a simple task, but doing so has become even more complicated in today's tough economic environment. Elevated interest rates, higher everyday costs and the ...

For millions of Americans living with chronic pain, the cycle feels endless: temporary relief followed by the inevitable return of pain and discomfort. Traditional approaches often focus on managing ...

Is this documented in the sqrt decomposition page? (BTW should be renamed square root to make it easier to search) I saw it in a Project Euler post but probably saw it elsewhere too. Compute queries ...

Genomic data is vast and increasingly sparse. This problem grows as we sequence more and more patients. Herein, Professor Ennis will describe an algorithmic tool that reduces the sparsity of genomic ...