So far, what could go wrong, has gone wrong for the New York Giants. The offense — again — is a dysfunctional mess, the defense lost a key player to a significant injury, and head coach Brian Daboll’s ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...
A major problem with plastic products is that they produce microplastics, tiny plastic fragments that can collect in the human body and are tied to health problems. The microplastics in water are most ...
Science is a story of coming up with theories then doing our best to disprove them. That is especially true for theories on a grand, cosmological scale, though disproving them can be particularly hard ...
The ivory tower is a symbol of academia—and an implicit critique of the isolated and often aloof nature of scholarship. It seems only appropriate to talk about why the ivory tower is failing marketing ...
The Trump administration has a problem. The latest jobs report showed just 22,000 jobs were added in August. Employment data for June was revised to a loss of 13,000 jobs, the first net loss since the ...
Lee Drutman is the author of Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America. He is a senior fellow at the think tank New America, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University ...
If the Carolina Panthers weren't thoroughly embarrassed by their inept efforts in Week 1 against the Jacksonville Jaguars, they should be. Very few players emerged from the game with any credit. After ...
Xi-led summit challenges current U.S.-led global order Xi hosted 20 leaders, including Russia's Putin and India's Modi China offers aid, AI cooperation to SCO initiative members TIANJIN, China, Sept 1 ...
In January 1993, a gunman murdered seven people in a fast-food restaurant in Palatine, a suburb of Chicago. In his dual roles as an administrative executive and spokesperson for the police department, ...