The regional editors of Fastest Known Time, the official arbiter of FKTs, have spoken. The consensus: record-setters from around the globe made selecting the best FKTs of year harder than ever. In ...

Editor’s note: This is the eighth story in a series titled “Virtual Dominance: How a cyber charter school has upended K-12 education in Pa.” The series investigates the causes and consequences of the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

A scientist spotted the asteroid hiding in the light of the sun. It's not an imminent threat to Earth, but other space rocks like it could be. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Michelino Sunseri climbed past boulders on his way to a record-breaking feat: The extreme runner reached the summit of Grand Teton, one of the highest mountains in the American West, and then rushed ...

Nine years ago, Jeff Garmire went to the Appalachian Trail to escape. Heading northbound from Georgia to Maine, the 34-year-old endurance athlete was in desperate need of a change of pace. Garmire had ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. In the final three days of his Appalachian Trail record attempt, Bozeman ultra-runner Jeff ...