The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...

The Precious Paths Special Research quest is running throughout the season sharing its name in Pokémon Go. This means you can't fully complete this quest in one go. Instead, the Precious Paths quest ...

110 years ago today, Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, which redefined the relationship between matter and gravity. Suddenly, our mysterious universe made a little more sense ...

The relative deprivation theory explains why people feel dissatisfied, not because of what they lack, but because of how they compare themselves to others. Secret Service finds 17 'skimming' devices ...

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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 ...

Use the configuration option file_search_path to configure to which “root directories” relative paths are expanded on. If file_search_path is not set, the working directory is used as the basis for ...

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.

Earlier this year, CVS Health announced that it would invest $20 billion in improving the consumer experience and making the healthcare journey simpler. Now, its health benefits arm, Aetna, is ...

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...