The second-largest county in the United States has established a permanent guaranteed basic income program after the success of a previous pilot version. The Cook County Board of Commissioners ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, much like recognizing Morse code. The insects learned which signal led to a ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus terrestris—can decide where to forage for food based on different durations of visual ...

Newton’s Programs and Services Committee met on Wednesday to discuss revisions to the city council’s rules and the development of a formal code of conduct. Prior to the inauguration of the newly ...

They were supposed to be on a break. Filmmaker Christian Yamane and his producers were working on a film and agreed to take a step back from that project for about a month. “But I didn’t really feel ...

Should a country financially support its artists? That’s the question that Ireland sought to answer with a pilot program that ran between 2022 and 2025, during which the government provided 2,000 ...

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the mayor’s race, plans if elected to replace the selective program, which became a symbol of segregation in public schools. By Emma G. Fitzsimmons and ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

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 ...

Learn three quick and visual pen tricks that require no special props and only a bit of practice. From vanishes to transformations, these illusions show how everyday objects can create moments of real ...

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

Microsoft’s Historic 6502 BASIC Code is Now Open Source Your email has been sent Microsoft has officially released the code for its 6502 BASIC version under an open ...