Progress begets progress. Showing people that the city is making progress can encourage them to make even greater strides forward. He calls it the "orange cone theory." Not only do residents see ...

Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very ...

Did a player on Tom Osborne's first team wear a uniform number not worn by anybody else in college football history? And if not, what did he wear?

The biological study of species offers no equivalent to such transmutation. An individual which belongs to a given species ...

A relative newcomer has started to gain traction in the college-entrance-exam landscape—especially in red states.

Kamala Harris’s loss in last November’s presidential election produced few prominent claims of fraud, and nothing like the ...

Others pushed back on Alpha Theory's findings. Verdad's Chingono simulated the 10-year performance of tens of thousands of portfolios, with holdings ranging from five stocks to 500, using U.S.

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question — how hard is it to untie a knot? — has a complicated answer.

P ractice, the saying goes, makes perfect. And, if you believe a common piece of wisdom, it’s a specific amount of practice: 10,000 hours. Make that threshold, the advice goes, and you will achieve ...

The idea of having a “magic number” for retirement savings — $1 million, $1.5 million or even $2 million — has been popularized by surveys and headlines. However, these figures often fail to reflect ...

Imagine taking up a job knowing that there’s a 50% chance you will be fired in less than one year. That’s the occupational hazard of being a top-flight football club manager, arguably the job with the ...

First surfacing in 2021, the “dead internet theory” is the idea that the future internet will be largely driven by autonomous bots rather than real-world humans, creating an endless content factory ...