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 ...

On September 9, Israel shocked the world by bombing a villa in a residential neighborhood of Doha in an attempt to kill senior Hamas officials. It was the second time Qatar was struck this year. (In ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

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 ...

Almost a full year into President Donald Trump‘s second term, the full scope of the federal government’s woke and weaponized posture toward its citizens is still unfolding. Beyond the known targeting ...

Pope Leo XIV gestures, on the day he celebrates a Mass for the Jubilee of the World of Education and proclaims St. John Henry Newman as "Doctor of the Church" in Saint Peter's Square, at the Vatican, ...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday urged young people to cultivate their “interior life” and to listen to their restlessness without “fleeing from it” or “filling it” with things that don’t satisfy, lest they ...

Researchers at the University of Kent, UK, introduced LiteRBS (Lightweight and Rapid Bidirectional Search), a novel grid-based pathfinding algorithm designed for efficient and scalable navigation in ...

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 ...

Ink is keen on building a “sound you can trust.” That was her thesis while busking throughout the streets of Atlanta in the early 2010s, with her cowboy hat and boots in tow. The Columbus-raised ...