Last week, the NBA fined the Utah Jazz $500,000 for "conduct detrimental to the league" and the Indiana Pacers $100,000 for violating the league's Player Participation Policy after both teams altered ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

This video breaks down the bizarre legal battle over who owns the JavaScript name. Despite not creating or maintaining the language, Oracle controls the trademark. The story traces how this happened ...

My thanks to the European Union for co-organizing this event with UNEP and the UNEP-hosted UN Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN). While conflicts rarely have a single cause, climate change ...

When the United Nations Environment Assembly convenes in December, a key topic up for discussion will be the mounting environmental impact of artificial intelligence. Ahead of those talks, here’s a ...

Abstract: The choice of hub locations is fundamental in various transportation and communication systems, enabling transshipment, sorting, and consolidation functions. Recent research has highlighted ...

We meet a solutions architect who tells us that his defining characteristic is curiosity, and that for him success is in solving problems with technology, for people. In a recent episode of the First ...

Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International Affairs, Wake Forest University While U.S. and global solutions seem far off, policies to limit harm from microplastics are gaining traction at ...

Microplastics seem to be everywhere—in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. They have turned up in human organs, blood, testicles, placentas and even brains. While the full health ...

Poornika Ananth does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

From climate change and COVID-19 to violent crime and the national budget deficit: why are Americans increasingly divided over which issues deserve attention? And how do these divisions emerge even ...