For a technology that could revolutionize work, upend economies and maybe even threaten our survival, artificial intelligence often surprises me with the ways it’s actually being used. Consider ...

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate hit a whopping 7.23% in August, an eye-watering number for anyone looking to buy a house. And many prospective homebuyers have decided that if they have to pay ...

Homebuyers in Florida have quietly begun closing on homes without using an agent — relying instead on artificial intelligence to search listings, generate offers and draft contracts. Tech startup Homa ...

If you thought Labubus were so 2025, there’s already a new obsession lining up for 2026. Just as collectors were hitting blind-box fatigue, Japanese robotics company Yukai Engineering has shifted the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

Time was, entire social castes would be dedicated to divining the intentions of the gods. Chicken entrails, the flight of birds, the rolling of thunder—all this and more was used by ancient peoples ...