Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have re-engineered the popular Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM) for simulating ...

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Tension: We’re encouraged to share our struggles publicly while being punished for showing genuine uncertainty or need.

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

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 ...

Sir Christopher Pissarides was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2010 for his work on economic "frictions," or market inefficiencies. These days, he's focused more on new mental frictions rather than market ...

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 ...

If you’ve been trying to lose weight, you’ve likely stumbled upon multiple weight loss supplements that promise fast results but never deliver. I’ve been there too. When I first heard about Mitolyn, I ...

The modern internet is ruled by algorithms. When you boot up Instagram, for example, what you see in your feed is strategically sorted by the app's AI based on your past activity to keep you engaged ...