After a 10-year effort, physicists got a value for “Big G” that does not settle the debate over one of nature’s hardest ...

Ron is on the small side, which doesn’t bother me, but not one of the women at the party so much as gave him the time of day.

In the first two articles of this series, we asked what well-being means to you and explored how Santa Cruz County built a shared commitment to measuring it. Your responses reflected both care and ...

Richard Heys is deputy chief economist in the Office for National Statistics, Newport, UK. For decades, economists have known that using gross domestic product (GDP) alone to guide policy is ...

To that end, Jell-Ometer (with the second syllable pronounced “law”) offers “jiggle” read-outs on a 10-point scale. A “3” is ...

A new satellite could transform how water is studied worldwide. But to help unlock its capabilities, scientists first needed to take critical measurements on a mountaintop. Credit... Supported by By ...

You know that feeling of simultaneous delight and dismay you get when you finally roll the credits on a really good game? Well, a new report claims that that feeling is not only real, but has a name, ...

The influential AI researcher François Chollet has long argued that the field measures intelligence incorrectly, that popular benchmarks reward a model’s ability to memorize vast amounts of data ...

For centuries, time was tied to Earth’s rotation, with a second defined as a fraction of a full day. But inconsistencies in the planet’s spin made that system unreliable for scientific use. Since 1967 ...

No. 3 Illinois plays its final game of the first weekend of the NCAA tournament on Saturday with a second-round faceoff with No. 11 VCU. While Illinois knocked No. 14 Penn out of the arena on Thursday ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Friday rejected a Senate-passed bill to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), but not immigration enforcement, instead proposing a stopgap to fund the ...