Cambridge scientists have discovered a light-powered chemical reaction that lets researchers modify complex drug molecules at the final stages of development. Unlike traditional methods that rely on ...

Many engineering challenges come down to the same headache—too many knobs to turn and too few chances to test them. Whether tuning a power grid or designing a safer vehicle, each evaluation can be ...

Every day, algorithms make consequential decisions about millions of people's lives—who gets approved for a mortgage, who is called back for a job interview, who receives priority care in a hospital ...

DENVER—The Global Positioning System is one of the few space programs that touches nearly every human life, and the stewards of the satellite navigation network are eager to populate the fleet with ...

The American people don’t need any help being suspicious about the government’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein. But the Trump administration keeps giving them more reason to be anyway. One of the most ...

Social Security is making a major internal change next month that could make things easier for millions of beneficiaries. The Social Security Agency is rolling out a National Appointment Scheduling ...

Abstract: The change-making problem is to represent a given value with the fewest coins under a given coin system. As a variation of the knapsack problem, it is known to be NP-hard. Nevertheless, ...

There has been a growing demand in recent years to separate “profound autism” into its own diagnosis, outside current parameters. Since 2013, autism diagnoses have been split into three levels, ...

The 76th annual Berlinale kicks off today in Germany, and it’s already begun with a somewhat politically charged press conference. Paris, Texas director Wim Wenders serves as this year’s jury ...

The next election is not an existential event for the United States. Neither is the one after that — or the one after that. But that won’t stop American politicians from claiming otherwise, nor ...

China's sweeping efforts to clean up its air have delivered one of the biggest public health success stories of recent decades. Since the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan was launched ...