Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer. By Kenneth Chang Scientists say they have solved in detail what may be the ...

One unique feature of a reverse mortgage is that you don't have to make monthly payments. But that doesn't mean that the bill won't come due — and when it does, it's due in full. Payment is due ...

Democracy Now! speaks with science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow about AI and his latest book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial ...

In “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI,” the renowned tech critic Cory Doctorow tries to find a good way to coexist with artificial intelligence. By Stephen Marche Stephen Marche is the ...

Rob Williams knows how to pitch Jeff Bezos: You write a press release as if your product has already been built. Bezos reads it and gives a thumbs up or down. Williams went through this process a lot ...

The gauge bosons of the standard model of particle physics are responsible for three of the four known forces in the universe, conveyed through the exchange of virtual bosons. In electromagnetism, the ...

I recently started teaching a new student named Dan, and he reminds me of a lot of golfers I’ve seen over the years. He loves the game and plays as much as he can, but has been frustrated for years by ...

It was mid-October, peak leaf-peeping season in Hanover, New Hampshire, and Chad Markey was on a rare break between clinical rotations during his last year of medical school. He should have been ...

Reserve mortgages — more commonly known as reverse mortgages — allow homeowners 62+ to convert home equity into cash without monthly loan payments. The loan is repaid when the homeowner sells, moves ...

A gene therapy that can restore sight to people born with degenerative blindness has earned its creators one of science’s most prestigious prizes, often described by its Silicon Valley founders as the ...