In August, a team of mathematicians posted a paper claiming to solve a major problem in algebraic geometry — using entirely alien techniques. It instantly captivated the field, stoking excitement in ...

Navigating in a microgravity environment is a challenge even for trained human astronauts, but it is even more challenging for autonomous robots, limiting their use in places like a space station. Now ...

As reading declines, fragments of the literary past float to the cultural surface like corpses after a shipwreck. Complex thought survives in a motto: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ...

READING, Pa. – During its Committee of the Whole meeting Monday night, Reading City Council heard a report from the administration that said providing personalized handicapped spaces may not be ...

Ms. Kinder is a writer and an instructor at Yale Summer Session. Since 2014, I’ve led a study-abroad writing course for Yale University in Auvillar, a village in the southwest of France. For many of ...

Looking back 50 years later, The Muppet Show feels like something that shouldn’t have worked—and somehow worked perfectly. A ...

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Readers respond to a librarian who wrote that listening to a book qualifies as reading. To the Editor: Re “Yes, Listening to a Book Counts as Reading,” by Brian Bannon (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 23): ...

To hear Silicon Valley tell it, artificial intelligence is outgrowing the planet that gave birth to it. Data centers will account for nearly half of U.S. electricity demand growth between now and 2030 ...

Houston, we have a list of great museums where you can learn about outer space, from science to history. Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra ...

Jeff Bezos’ aerospace firm Blue Origin has been working for over a year on the necessary technology for artificial intelligence data centers in space, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, ...