The quantum world is famously weird—a single particle can be in two places at once, its properties are undefined until they are measured, and the very act of measuring a quantum system changes ...

Attorney Mickey Haller — known as Michael Connelly’s Lincoln Lawyer character — believes “the proving ground” is the courtroom, where he makes his “final stand” on a case, and was at one time “sacred ...

Imagine society as a ladder with 10 rungs. Where would you place yourself? That answer reflects your subjective social status—where you see yourself in society. Importantly, this is not necessarily ...

Study enables deeper understanding of the Borell-Brascamp-Lieb inequality, which has wide applications across many scientific fields, from physics to economics. What happens when things combine? This ...

About a decade ago Tonan Kamata, now a mathematician at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), stood mesmerized in front of a math museum’s origamilike exhibit. It featured a ...

Political commentators, academics and others have been wringing their hands over threats to democracy in recent years. A new study helps us better understand one of the possible driving forces behind ...

A certain kind of politician loves to rail about income inequality and the corporate greed and injustice that supposedly cause it. It won’t surprise anyone who’s ever held a job in the private economy ...

If we’re not careful, we could see widening gaps within countries and between them. Prominent AI researchers expect the arrival of artificial general intelligence anywhere between “the next couple of ...

We want to prove that we’re right, that our opinions matter, that we’re not stupid, that we can love in a healthy way, that we are successful, and so on. It all comes back to our worth. We try to ...

The gender pay gap - the difference between what men and women are paid for the same role - has doubled from 2.9% in 2022 to 6.0% in April 2024. According to data pulled from over 1 million resumes in ...