The world's shortest IQ test is just three questions long and can tell if you're smarter than 80 percent of the population. Called the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT), it has been around since 2005 ...

We've all heard the best approach to solve a problem is to "sleep on it." It turns out there may be more truth to this adage than previously thought. While stories abound of eureka moments surfacing ...

Microsoft has warned that information-stealing attacks are "rapidly expanding" beyond Windows to target Apple macOS environments by leveraging cross-platform languages like Python and abusing trusted ...

Combining generative AI with reinforcement learning can help the U.S. win the race to fusion energy by finding better ways to reach the plasma temperatures and pressures needed for fusion power plants ...

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence. Save this story Save this story Even the smartest artificial intelligence ...

Learn a step-by-step system to solve almost any circuit question, from basic resistor networks to multi-loop and node-voltage problems. This video breaks down a repeatable method—identifying ...

For elementary students, math problem-solving often feels like a puzzle without all the pieces. They know there’s a solution somewhere, but they can’t quite see how it all fits together. Behind every ...

Rare fossils reveal that worms managed to survive multiple mass extinction events. A recent scientific investigation has revealed a surprising discovery: a parasite that still targets modern oysters ...

Buckle up. A revolution is brewing, and it could come faster than its architects expected. The enactment of the National Lands Commission (Amendment) Act 2025, controversially assented to by President ...

For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — the world’s first recorded pandemic — in the Eastern Mediterranean, where the ...

Google DeepMind announced on 21 July that its software had cracked a set of maths problems at the level of the world’s top secondary-school students, achieving a gold-medal score on questions from the ...

Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...