LAS VEGAS — Max Verstappen won the Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday night after capturing the lead from championship leader Lando Norris at the start and never looking back. The Formula 1 cars blasted ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

When it comes to growing a loyal finance podcast base, it's important to realize that listeners don’t just tune in for information; they come back for familiarity. In particular, the most successful ...

Red Bull star Max Verstappen won his fourth Formula 1 United States Grand Prix in five years, Sunday, Oct. 19 at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Verstappen started on pole and lead ...

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 ...

Sir Christopher Pissarides was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2010 for his work on economic "frictions," or market inefficiencies. These days, he's focused more on new mental frictions rather than market ...

In structural health monitoring (SHM), uncertainties from environmental noise and modeling errors affect damage detection accuracy. This paper introduces a new concept: the Fast Fourier Transform ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

The modern internet is ruled by algorithms. When you boot up Instagram, for example, what you see in your feed is strategically sorted by the app's AI based on your past activity to keep you engaged ...