Like his previous two novels and short stories, Bryan Washington’s fourth book, “Palaver,” is set in Houston, where he’s from, and/or Japan, where he now lives. But in “Palaver,” which was nominated ...

The first, and often the hardest, task in writing a newspaper column, a school essay or even a book, is to select a topic. Or more precisely, to shed many of the numerous suitable topics demanding ...

San Jose once again is touting its Silicon Valley prominence with the city offering access to artificial intelligence courses and tools to all residents. At the GovAI Coalition Summit that began ...

A choir teacher was exasperated with hearing slang like “67” in her middle school classroom. Rather than ban it, she asked her students to write and perform a song about it. “Some teachers get ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Concept design for a rectangular space telescope, modeled after the Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER), a notional infrared space observatory, and the James Webb Space ...

Ctrl+F is a keyboard shortcut that lets you find words or phrases within a document or a webpage on a Windows computer. If you didn’t know such a shortcut existed, don’t worry. You’re not the only ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Carla Dillon tried lots of ways to discipline her rambunctious 13-year-old, including making him write the same contrite sentence 100 times. But when he sprayed her with a water gun at a campground ...

The Trump administration will propose the repeal of a landmark 2009 determination that climate change poses a danger to the public, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin said ...