Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

A violent New Hampshire cold case has been solved, with the murderer being identified as the original suspect, who was never arrested because a flawed FBI report “thwarted” the investigation. Judith ...

In 1999, Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman vanished after a mysterious house fire in Oklahoma. Investigators found two bodies — but not the girls. Decades later, a box of Polaroids surfaced, exposing a ...

A few years back, Google made waves when it claimed that some of its hardware had achieved quantum supremacy, performing operations that would be effectively impossible to simulate on a classical ...

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Caltech have finally solved a decades-old mystery about how photosynthesis really begins. They discovered why energy inside plants flows down ...

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 ...

Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers. The ...

A father gunned down in his sleep, a frantic wife on the phone, and a house filled with suspicion. Investigators thought they knew the killer—until a 6-year-old shattered the case wide open. A ‘Trump ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

When four mothers in Southern California finally had their kids in school full-time, they didn’t look to fill their hours with Pilates or pickleball. They decided to investigate a murder. In the new ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Columbo, eat your heart out: A team of scientists has just solved a massive marine murder mystery, nabbing the culprit behind the deaths of billions of sea stars over the past decade. In a new study, ...