The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

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Chinese-made drones have dominated the skies in the United States for years, with private owners, police departments, and firefighters deploying them nationwide. But a new rule by the Federal ...

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has ushered in 2026 with a new technical paper, co-authored by founder Liang Wenfeng, that proposes a rethink of the fundamental architecture used to ...

The thing about Kayla is she just showed up out of the teenage gate swinging, wide-eyed and perilously eager to bend to suggestion. Her whole deal is cutting straight to the chase, all soft, ...

Editor’s note: Previous versions of the simulation were incorrectly calculating each team’s odds of reaching the conference finals and beyond. That error has been ...

As a style editor, I spend more time than most thinking about shoes. (It’s both a blessing and a curse.) So when new men’s sneaker trends pop up, I get to see them early—and then spend untold hours ...