One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Earlier this year, a slightly balding man in spectacles, a black T-shirt, and bright high-top ...

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 ...

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 ...

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings Date: 8/26/2025 Total Time: Approximately 9.5 hours Project: Solve the Maximum SubArray problem--develop a Sum of Subarray's map to ...

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and solve the long-standing polaron problem, unlocking deeper understanding of ...

ABSTRACT: The Collatz Conjecture asserts that for all positive integers s , every Syracuse integer sequence defined by T( s )=s/2 if s is even, and T( s )= ( 3s+1 )/2 otherwise, eventually reaches 1 ...

Permian dominates U.S. oil growth, contributing over 6 million barrels per day and nearly half of total U.S. output, but its growth is increasingly seen as unsustainable. No sharp drop in Permian ...

On Sunday, the Chicago Sun-Times published an advertorial summer reading list containing at least 10 fake books attributed to real authors, according to multiple reports on social media. The newspaper ...

More than half the world’s population has a leader over age 70. In this report from May 2024, WSJ breaks down what that means for policies and political engagement. Photo illustration: Jacob Nelson “I ...