Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you ...

IN THE AGE of wearables, fitness is no longer about going for a run on a nice day or scheduling a walk around the neighborhood with a friend for the sake of movement. These feats are now all about ...

Previous guidance recommended people walk at least 10,000 steps a day. A new study suggests that walking just 4,000 steps a day, rather than the more widely recommended 10,000 steps a day, could be ...

Share on Pinterest Do we need 10,000 steps a day to see cardiovascular benefits? A new study finds fewer steps may be sufficient. mrs/Getty Images Past studies show that older women, especially those ...

Marvel Studios’ “Fantastic Four: First Steps” is expected to land on Disney+ in October or mid-November, following its July 25 theatrical debut. The superhero film is still playing in select theaters, ...

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 ...

I’ve faced some hard choices in video games. Some of my decisions in Life is Strange still haunt me. Ghost of Tsushima’s final sequence prompted me to put my controller down for a good 10 minutes ...

Marvel’s highest-grossing movie of the year is finally streaming. Fantastic Four: First Steps is now available on digital video-on-demand platforms, almost exactly two months after launching in ...

As someone who lives for the unexpected, unique, and downright weird, it only took about five seconds for the absolute craziness of Baby Steps to steal my heart. This spiritual successor to ...

Not two hours into my trek through Baby Steps, an open world physics comedy published by Devolver Digital, I walked by a pit. The discovery came just after I’d finally worked up enough skills to keep ...

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.