The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

After Sharon Osbourne revealed she had disinvited a band from Ozzy Osbourne’s Black Sabbath farewell concert, fans took to social media to speculate which one it was. “My guess is Motley Crue,” wrote ...

The Department of the Air Force’s process for determining if airmen and Space Force guardians should receive medical waivers for shaving is about as indecipherable as the infamous flow chart about ...

Once there was a time when egregious acts by presidents required a veneer of legitimacy. President Ronald Reagan may have ignored the AIDS crisis and engaged in thinly veiled racist tropes, but ...

Co-authored by Nigel Bairstow, Ph.D., and Jeremy Neofytos, Research Assistant Over the last seven years, the customer experience on social media has shifted dramatically, moving away from the early ...

Even if your network knowledge runs deep there’s a high chance you haven’t heard of Nagle’s Algorithm. Named after its creator, John Nagle, this algorithm plays a part in the efficient operation of ...

This is Part 7 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — In a cavernous converted chapel at ...