We’re in the fortunate position to be able to give gifts to our married son but have yet to do so in a substantial way. Typically, we pay for home improvements for their home (for example, some ...

What’s BECCS, and why’s it so complicated? Sucking carbon pollution out of the atmosphere is becoming a big business—companies are paying top dollar for technologies that can cancel out their own ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

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 ...

Climate change doesn’t just pose an existential threat to our planet. It’s also ratcheting up national security risks. With increasing food insecurity, resource scarcity and unstable borders, climate ...

Amazon says that it has mostly fixed an underlying issue behind a major outage that led to widespread connectivity issues for businesses, popular websites, and apps around the world that rely on ...

Have you ever felt that your phone should have been smaller or a little lighter, making it easier to use? In fact, when the smartphone era began, phones were typically small and compact. However, over ...

Amazon Web Services says it has fixed the underlying problem that has disrupted many of the world's biggest websites and apps, and that all services have "returned to normal operations" Snapchat, ...

Mike Callicrate, a cattle rancher who has built a direct-to-consumer operation, at his farm in St Francis, Kansas Beef prices have gotten so high in the US that it has become a political problem. Even ...