Why write ten lines of code when one will do? From magic variable swaps to high-speed data counting, these Python snippets ...

A few years ago, during a taxi ride, the driver described to me how a pig had transformed his life. A childhood with dogs taught him what to expect from animals, yet he was unprepared for the pig he ...

This is a review of Truth: What It Is, How To Find It & Why It Still Matters. by Michael Shermer, forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press. Amidst claims of “fake news,” “alternative facts,” ...

This video explains the history of a.m. and p.m., how they came from Latin timekeeping, and why noon and midnight are labeled differently than other hours. Two congressmen watched an ICE shooting ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Helldivers 2 is getting its next premium Warbond on December 2, bringing new weapons, armor sets, and everything else you need to stomp some bugs. The Python Commandos Warbond seems inspired by the ...

So, you’re looking to get better at coding with Python, and maybe you’ve heard about LeetCode. It’s a pretty popular place to practice coding problems, especially if you’re aiming for tech jobs.

We hear it all the time in true crime podcasts, headlines and neighborhood chatter: Call the cops. The cops showed up. Good cop, bad cop. But have you ever stopped to investigate where the word cop ...

Recursion, Roche, and its Genentech subsidiary have unveiled the latest product of their nearly four-year artificial intelligence (AI) drug discovery collaboration, a whole-genome map of specialized ...

Dr. Berg teaches philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. Last spring, it became clear to me that over half the students in my large general education lecture course had used artificial ...