In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of paper. As the shockwave rolled toward him, he dropped the papers and watched ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Taylor Soper on Oct 17, 2025 at 7:00 ...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is at it again, making a bonkers claim that President Donald Trump is going to lower drug prices by “200, 300, 100 percent.” It’s the same “Maga Math” the ...

The thousands of small trucking companies that help move goods around the United States have a fairly old-school way of doing things, according to Paul Singer. He would know — he left his product ...

Last week, in a conversation with Anthropic’s Claude, I lamented the fact that, at least here in the West, every public debate appears to resemble a confrontation rather than a dialogue. I suggested ...

Recipe for Disaster is Slate’s column about what recipes get wrong—and how to fix them. If you’ve noticed a recipe annoyance, absurdity, or outright lie, file your complaint here and we will ...

While 630 young math prodigies were sitting in a conference room on Australia’s sunshine coast, readying their pencils for the International Math Olympiad, a potential rival was still en route from ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

Basic math can sometimes cause the biggest arguments. This man was working as a cashier and encountered a difficult mother-and-daughter customer. They were questioning him about the amount he charged.

Math doesn’t have to be daunting, especially when your iPhone (or iPad) can do the heavy lifting. Tucked away inside iOS is a full-featured scientific calculator, ready to help you solve complex ...

A team of scientists at King’s College London has discovered a new set of mathematical equations that can turn any sequence of random, unpredictable events into a clock. This research suggests that ...