In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph. D.

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There’s been lots of chatter about just how much money is $1 trillion, now that Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person, has a net worth that makes him Earth’s first “trillionaire” — at least on ...

Imagine Carol, a 67-year-old retired teacher in suburban Ohio. She owns a four-bedroom home outright with no mortgage, but two of those bedrooms have been empty since her kids left a decade ago. The ...

Whenever I get coffee with a mathematician, I always ask which of the seven Millennium Problems they think will be next to fall. These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win ...

Baltimore's newly appointed schools CEO visited summer camp on his first day on the job.

Fortunately, the skin cancer on my jawline was treatable. The two decades of sun exposure that caused it weren’t. I kept telling myself that little spot was just an ingrown beard hair. When it was ...

Orbital data centers may eventually support AI and space-native workloads, but launch costs, cooling, maintenance, and timing ...

Dota 2 has a new hero - or should that be an old one? It's tough to be sure. If you logged into the Valve MOBA this week, you might have been surprised to find that Axe, one of its longest-standing ...

Did you get a slightly bigger-than-expected bill for YouTube recently? You didn't imagine it. YouTube has gradually increased the price of its subscriptions for the first time since 2023.