O n Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies would prefer to keep hidden. Four popular ...

There’s more to a smartwatch than logging your stats on Strava — here’s how to use your new wearable to sleep better than ...

Background Annually, 4% of the global population undergoes non-cardiac surgery, with 30% of those patients having at least ...

Introduction Application of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the healthcare setting gains importance especially in the domain of disease diagnosis. Numerous studies have tried to explore AI in ...

The basics of photosynthesis are something that every student learns in school: carbon dioxide, water and light in; oxygen and sugar for growth out. In a world where atmospheric carbon dioxide levels ...

Right about now, households across Britain are trimming their Christmas trees. It's one of the season's simplest pleasures to be had at home: pour a festive tipple, queue up some holiday tunes and ...

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 ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Balanced funds can be an investor’s best friend. If you can handle some ups and downs, up to about a 20% drop in value, and you’re planning to invest for at least 10 years, these “set it and forget it ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

Oak trees change their fine roots and ‘energise’ soil microbes by supplying them with a cocktail of small organic compounds, all to supplement the trees’ supply of essential nutrients when exposed to ...