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There is an alarm bell going off in consumer credit. Just not the typical one. According to tracking by the New York Fed, the percentage of credit-card loan balances that were 90 days or more ...

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

Bumblebees faced with a challenge know how to play ball. Buff-tailed bumblebees can figure out on their own how to use a ball as a ladder to nab sugar from an out-of-reach fake flower, researchers ...

Forty years ago, the NBA flipped the script and debuted a new logo for their championship series. Illustration: Demetrius Robinson / The Athletic; Photo: Mike Ehrmann / Getty Images This is a story ...

Three weeks before Disclosure Day opens in theaters, screenwriter David Koepp revealed in a new Vanity Fair profile published today, May 22, 2026, that the Steven Spielberg sci-fi thriller required a ...

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OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

The end of the semester is drawing near, which means we are about to receive a few emails that pull out all the stops. Drama! Intrigue! Crisis! As professors, there are a few things that are ...

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...