The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the ...

Last week, I wrote about Olivia Nuzzi’s remarkably swift media rehabilitation, and the response surprised me. That column argued that modern media rewards spectacle over substance, but it also hinted ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...

A novel two-stage Track-Before-Detect (TbD) method has been developed to significantly improve the detection of weak moving targets using reflected Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals.

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Forget about turtles; for all practical purposes, it’s really particles all the way down. Consider the seemingly simple matter of their size, the very thing that makes them so alien. We’re typically ...

Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana─Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States Department of ...

The 2025 World Athletics Championships are just over six weeks away. Starting today (Thursday) and ending Sunday, the top U.S. athletes will assemble at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., for the USA ...

This tutorial contains all the steps involved in the NPSAT construction and implementation phase. Let assume that there is a hypothetical agricultural groundwater basin and there is a continuous ...

Discover the fascinating world of particle physics — the most fundamental building blocks of the universe and the forces that connect them. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...