The U.S. livestock and meat sectors are staring down a labor crisis. As federal immigration officials prepare to deport more than one million undocumented workers, meatpackers, dairies, poultry ...

In a remarkable leap for neuroscience, lab-grown mini-brains, or brain organoids, have demonstrated the ability to solve math ...

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so ...

The last calculating machine designed by Blaise Pascal in private hands is heading to Christie's Paris this November.

Online poker generates $3.86 billion annually. By 2030, projections show $6.90 billion. Players trust these platforms with ...

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

The Goldilocks solution to our math crisis is where relatable problems aren’t so simple that there’s no learning but also not so complex and irrelevant that there's none.

Lydia Patrick is a Newsweek Life and Trends Reporter based in London, focusing on emerging trends, human interest stories, and women's issues. She previously uncovered a growing pattern of knife crime ...

Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty good illusion of randomness, home computers back in the 1980s weren’t so lucky. Despite this, their random number ...

How many U.S. states include the letter “R” in their name? You may not know the answer off the top of your head, but any literate adult could figure it out with a list of the states and minimal effort ...

You might not find a full casino at U.S. military bases, but that doesn't mean gambling isn't happening. Much of the gambling is sanctioned and encouraged by the U.S. armed forces in the form of slot ...